Despite decayed masonry and worn concrete, Mexico City's mid-century university campus is still abuzz with student life according to photographer Yueqi Jazzy Li, who has documented the UNESCO World Heritage-listed site in this set of photos.
Li took the photos of The Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) during a holiday in the capital towards the end of last year.

Completed in 1954 to the south of the city centre, the complex was built to replace an old campus that sprawled across Mexico City. The new design consolidated the educational facilities into a dense site, comprising faculty buildings, the Cultural Center, an ecological reserve, museums, the Central Library and the Olympic Stadium.
A number of Mexican architects, including Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral, contributed to the project ? following the modernist architecture style popular at the time. With structures still in tact today, the site is celebrated as a significant example of 20th-century modernism, and was recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.

"Walking around the campus designed nearly 70 years ago at the height of modernism architecture is like seeing the best ideals of this architectural movement unfold in front your very eyes ? abstract yet humanistic, geometrically bold yet woven with nature ? a total sense of openness, permeability, and interconnectivity," Li told Dezeen.

He was surprised to find the weathered complex ...