Eight of Mexico's most stunning modern homes

From a sculptural icon by an early modernist master to a remote, rosy-hued dream home, here are some remarkable Mexican dwellings. Mexico has a dazzling architectural heritage – around 2,500 years ago, its ancient pyramids were created, and from 1521 ornate Spanish Baroque styles were imported. Over the past century, this rich history has inspired Mexico's most acclaimed architects, featured in a new book Mexico Modern, by Tami Christiansen. Modernism first emerged after the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to 1920, expressing a new national identity, free of colonial influences. Architects began to emulate indigenous, pre-Columbian architecture whose elemental, geometric forms aligned with the European modernist taste for simplicity. But the Mexican modernists didn't replicate their European counterparts' work, Christiansen tells the BBC. "Mexican architects reinterpreted their ideas, softening them with colour, texture and by connecting them more to landscape and climate. They also gave concrete more tactile, expressive qualities." Here's our pick of eight Mexico homes designed by acclaimed 20th-Century modernist architects, and architects working in a modernist vein today. This house

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