Mario Pani

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Mario Pani (born Mario Pani del Moral) (March 29, 1911 in Mexico City - ?, 1993), was a Mexican architect and urbanist, the most active under the rule of president Miguel Alemán Valdés. He imported in architecture and urbanism in first half of the 20th century and gave form to a good part of the urban appearance of Mexico City, with buildings emblematic and characteristic of this large city like the University City of the UNAM, the Habitational Unit in Nonoalco-Tlatelolco (following Le Corbusier's urban principles), the Normal School of Teachers, the National Conservatory of Music and diverse big housing blocks.

Pani studied and graduated as an architect in France and Mexico. He found the National College of Architects in 1946. He introduced the international style in Mexico and was the first builder of big housing blocks and applier of urbanist projects. Pani was a great innovator of the urban design of the City of Mexico and constructed in most of her, developing and participating in the more ambitious and important city-planning plans of century XX in Mexico, like Ciudad Satélite (along with Domingo Garcia Ramos and Jose Luis Cuevas), Tlatelolco, the Juárez and Miguel Alemán condominiums (called multifamiliares), and the condominium in Paseo de la Reforma, first of its type in Mexico.