Under the Marcos Pérez Jiménez government, promenade Los Precursores was built, a public academic space, structured on a large axis that, according to Silvia Lasala, is reminiscent of the Trocadero-Ecole Militaire axis in Paris. Adjacent to this, and as an independent complex, Luis Malaussena designed the buildings that form the Military Circle or Circle of the Armed Forces, using a language torn between modernity and academicism, exhibiting greater compositional freedom than in Malaussena’s previous projects and working as a trial for the future projects of the Maracay and Guaicamacuto hotels. The complex has two areas: a recreational one, linked to Paseo Los Próceres, and a rooms and informal spaces one, facing north. They are linked by a series of two-story corridors, pergolas and sinuous awnings, which generate inner courtyards that favor open spaces. The functionalist and eclectic project mixes elements that result in a complex array, where references to pre-Hispanic language are introduced, as seen in the openwork wall with motifs inspired by pre-Hispanic local cultures; international style, related to the participation of Beckhoff, Jebens and Heufer; and a free, personal relationship with the colonial past, reflected in the Patio de Monta. Inside, lavish materials stand next to murals that value racial intermixing and identity, by Pedro Centeno Vallenilla (1904-1988).