
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) was founded in 1910. Its School of Architecture was amongst the founding faculties and incorporated the Academia de San Carlos, which had previously provided architectural teaching since the late 18thC. In 1954 the architecture school moved to its current location, within the University City (Ciudad Universtaria), in Coyoacan, Mexico City. Now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the University City was constructed between 1949 -1952, utilizing the services of over 60 architects, artists and engineers. It constitutes a unique example of 20th-century Mexican modernist architecture combining urban design with sculpture, decorative art and landscape design - also integrating references Mexico’s pre-Hispanic past. The School's first postgraduate studies in both architecture and urbanism were opened in 1968.