Corbusian rereadings in the work of Teodoro González de León

Despite the fact that critics called many of his works of architecture 'postmodern', the Mexican Teodoro González de León always described his buildings as fully modern. This article proposes to delve into the relationship between his work and Le Corbusier's (for whom he worked towards the end of the 1940s). We will place special emphasis on the first three decades of his work and his quest for monumentality (a traditional quality of Mesoamerican architecture) as a contribution to the adoption of modernist principles in Latin America.Aun cuando a mucha de su arquitectura, la crítica atribuyera el apelativo de posmoderna, el mexicano Teodoro González de León siempre la ha autodenominado como plenamente moderna. Este artículo se propone ahondar en las relaciones entre su obra y la de Le Corbusier, para quien trabajó al final de los años '40, con especial énfasis en las primeras décadas de actividad profesional del mexicano y su búsqueda de la monumentalidad –tradicional en la arquitectura mesoamericana– como aporte a la adopción latinoamericana de los postulados modernos