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Every year the Cité Internationale accommodates 10,000 students, researchers and artists in its 40 houses.
In the 1920s, the French government invited Mexico to take part in the construction of the Cité internationale, and in 1925 a site was set aside for a building to house Mexican university students. However, it wasn’t until the 8 October 1953 that the work, financed by the Mexican government, was finished and the building finally opened.
Jorge L. Medellin drew up the plans for Mexico House, which today includes 90 rooms, and his brother Roberto E. Medellin, engineer, worked alongside him to construct the building. He envisioned a modern-looking building made up of two parallel, relatively long wings connected by a building with a more free form shape. Originally, male and female students were housed separately in the two wings located on either side of a patio with greenery. As for the inside of the house, Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé designed the furnishings.