Neoclassical houses: the Reformation Laws and their consequences

Abstract

his essay reviews the transformations of the residential genre in Mexico City, as well as some examples throughout the country. It encompasses a broad selection of building types, from the first collective housing units dating from the end of the colonial period, built in the Neoclassical style by militay engineers, to the housing types from the Porfirian period, which include residences of the economic elite, collective housing units and apartment buildings of the less affluent, which in many cases have been extensively transformed or altogether destroyed.