Personally, I prefer the cactus theory.

If you have any ideas about the true origins of the tube fences—other than being utilitarian and low-cost—please let me know!

González de León: also a big Le Corbusier guy. He designed some of Mexico City’s most beautifully austere buildings, including Museo Rufino Tamayo and Auditorio Nacional de México. He also designed the shopping mall Reforma 222—which is a bunch of tubes.

But when I asked Exa Gonzalez, a guide who hosts architecture tours here in the city, he suggested that the tubes had a more recent origin: the modernist designs of Teodoro González de León.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodoro...

O’Gorman was the father of Mexican functionalism, which prioritized efficiency at low cost, following Le Corbusier’s philosophy that a house is a "machine for living". In O’Gorman’s language, the tubular fences would make a kind of utilitarian sense. The man loved simple geometric shapes.

In a charitable moment, I thought perhaps they were based on the elegant cercas de cactus used by architect Juan O’Gorman, most famously in front of the Diego and Frida studio houses.

Basically a fence of skinny bollards.

They’ve been in use since the 70s, i.e., the days of modernism and the international style, bell bottoms and Los Dug Dugs. But I’ve never really understood how, or why, the Mexican government decided on their form and structure.

oh this is great brother, thank you

if they were real ones the stamp would be a black octagon y dice "simulacro excesivo"

shitty clickthrough markets in everything

team ignore, but also team art, which overlaps a bit sometimes

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