The main detonator of the building process was the absolute and urgent need to preserve all the documentary richness of Oaxaca's heritage, which was scattered in many places and on the brink of destruction.  

© Élena Marini Silvestri

Architects: Mendaro Arquitectos

Location: La Ciudad de las Canteras, Mártires de Tacubaya, Agencia Municipal Sta Maria Ixcotel, 71229 Santa Lucía del Camino, Oax., Mexico

Architect In Charge: Ignacio Mendaro Corsini

Area: 11815.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Élena Marini Silvestri

Equipment Architecture: Anabel Gómez García, Omar Peñaloza Mendoza

Structural Engineering: PROESI S.C./ Darío Vasconcelos M
Facilities Engineering: Abelino León García

Illumination: Noriega Iluminadores

Invited Artist: Francisco Toledo

© Élena Marini Silvestri

From the architect. The main detonator of the building process was the absolute and urgent need to preserve all the documentary richness of Oaxaca's heritage, which was scattered in many places and on the brink of destruction.  

First Floor

The ?Las Canteras? Park, as it is known by Oaxaca?s people, is without any doubt, the ideal location to build the City of Archives. It is a highly symbolic site, because most of the green stone used to build the city of Antequera, as was known the city of Oaxaca under the Spanish rule and which gave the city it...