Abstract
Art Deco was the largest decorative style of the 1920’s and perfect expression of extravagant Paris during that decade. It emerged as a force opposing the historicist academic trend, both in architectural and industrial design that expanded globally and despite the opinions and being ignored by researchers and architecture historians. This paper aims to show through comparative photographic coincidences and discrepancies in two different geographic locations in Mexico, and the features demonstrated in Art Deco style in architecture as a response to meet the needs of architectural spaces, emphasizing housing (among others) for the middle class that developed in that historical moment, as a result of questioning about what strategy would meet its formal characteristics. Formally structured according to the following content: Introduction, background, Art Deco architecture in Mexico, in the Colonia Hipordromo-Condesa and in the city of Puebla concluding with the photographic comparison showing the similarities regarding this style.
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