It is hard to fathom that a professional who was active up to quite recently was a student of the first generation of modern Mexican architects, and a pioneer in enriching the teachings of International Style with vernacular features. But the career of Agustín Hernández, who died on 10 November at the venerable age of 98, did indeed stretch back to the golden years of brutalism, a movement he brilliantly refreshed with pre-Columbian airs. From the Folkloric Ballet School directed by his sister, the choreographer Amalia Hernández, to his iconic studio over the treetops of Chapultepec or the Heroic Military College, the forms that arose from this mixture – halfway between Teotihuacán and Star Wars – illustrate an indefatigable and above all audacious trajectory.[+]