The concrete furniture of the architect Edmundo Rodríguez

Abstract

During the 1970s, Mexico City's public spaces were the subject of an ambitious urban remodeling program led by the architect Joaquín Álvarez Ordóñez, then director of the Secretaría de Obras Públicas of the Departamento del Distrito Federal (former official name of Mexico City). The young architect Edmundo Rodríguez Saldívar, who had already had years of experience in the design of public spaces, was in charge of designing the urban furniture and the image of the renovated parks and gardens. This text presents the work of Rodríguez who, due to his short career and specialization in a subject ignored by historiography such as urban furniture, was practically absent from the history of art and architecture.