Mexican Architecture

Mexico has cities, towns and villages that feature assorted architectural styles. Most of the architecture is an enchanting blend of colonial and indigenous cultures.

There are wonderful cathedrals, pyramids made during the pre-Hispanic times, historical buildings and modern structures.

Modern Mexican painters and sculptors continued to produce an extraordinary variety of works in many styles and techniques. Major figures included Jose Luis Cuevas, Jorge G. Camarena, Martinez de Hoyos, Frida Kahlo (Diego Rivera's wife). The Mexican hacienda was a work place, a residence, a place of leisure and of religion-in short, a closed and self-sufficient rural world in which landowners and workers engaged in agricultural and livestock production. Constructed and modified from the sixteenth until the beginning of the twentieth centuries, they are today some of Mexico's architectural treasures. The hacienda's layout and buildings, though derived from earlier Spanish forms, constitute a uniquely Mexican vernacular architecture that deserves to be widely known and celebrated.