This post-graduate research center is constructed around a central quadrangle in the tradition of colleges and monasteries. It stands on a 2.8-hectare site, which varies in level by over forty feet. Trapezoidal in shape, with its longest side facing the entrance and the mountains to the south, the focal space is characterized by three platforms at different, interconnected levels. Each of these has a different character associated with the various functions of the institution. The entrance platform affords access to the 300,000-volume library, with, half a level higher, an entrance to the classrooms and seminaries, and from the platform half a level below, an entrance to the cafeteria, common room for students, and access to the auditorium and bookshop. The top platform leads to the president's office, ten study centers and to the research workers” cubicles. A single material, exposed concrete with marble chips, is employed throughout.  

Heyer, Paul, Mexican architecture, the work of Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro González de León, Walker and Co., 1978