Transformación de calles virreinales por actividad comercial en la capital porfiriana

The work of architect Ignacio Ulloa is to preserve the memory of Mexico City, and especially the street of Madero and Avenue Juarez in the Historic Downtown area. Ulloa's reading of these emblematic streets has a temporary location between 1890 and 1905. In that time the old mansions of the city, as well as its large spaces dedicated to the sacred, that is, its convents, will be touched by commerce, by money, by the brightness of shop windows, by the birth of publicity, by the much loved Frenchness of Porfirio Diaz, but they will also show the displacement of its inhabitants. Includes 20 drawings by Ulloa who "cultivates and practices to preserve what threatens to go away. The perpetually condemned to disappear. It is enough his will to preserve the memory to make this work essential, a monograph against oblivion, a lucid and courageous denunciation against real estate speculation and the eternal value of our collective heritage." (HKB Translation) --Page 14. Within the framework of the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the declaration of the "Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco" as part of the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the exhibition "Retratos de lo Público: Plazas, parques, jardines y calles del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad deMéxico" (Portraits of the Public: plazas, parks, gardens and streets of the Historic Center of Mexico City) was held in 2017 in the Plaza Manuel Gamio, next to the Metropolitan Cathedral. This exhibition was composed of aerial images from the Fondo Aerofotográfico of the Historical Collection of the ICA Foundation, displayed in counterpoint with new commissioned photographs of 52 public spaces of the Historic Center taken by Enrique Márquez Abella and Jordán Rodríguez Bárcenas.