The architecture of Mexico is some of the most striking and vivid of any in the world, characterized by open spaces, garden living, and vibrant colors. In the mid-twentieth century, renowned architects like Luis Barragan and Mathias Goeritz began to incorporate Euro-American Modernist design into the existing Mexican landscape and color scheme, creating a unique and exhilarating new design style in Mexico. Contemporary Mexican Design features the clean Modernist designs of Isaac Broid, Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, and Abraham Zabludovsky, as well as the passionate color of Jorge Alessio Robles and Jose de Yturbe.

Khristaan Villela is director of the Thaw Art History Center and assistant professor of art history at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. He received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in the history of art. He specializes in the art and architecture of Precolumbian Mexico, and has lectured and published widely on ancient Maya art and writing and on Colonial Mexican art. He has current research projects in both the American Southwest and in Yucatan, Mexico Ellen Bradbury has worked in the southwestern United States and Mexico. She has a master's degree from the University of New Mexico and worked at the Beinecke Library at Yale University on the papers of Mabel Dodge Luhan. She has been the curator of primitive art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, and is currently the director of Recursos de Santa Fe Logan Wagner is an architect and builder with extensive knowledge of both traditional and contemporary Mexican architecture. He was raised and educated in Mexico, where he studied anthropology and architecture before coming to the United States to obtain a doctorate in architectural history from the University of Texas at Austin. Wagner specializes in traditional building practices and materials