¡Hola, Ciudad de México! 🇲🇽 Who canceled their plans to see our folklorian fairy queen at the first night of Mexico City tonight? 🤍
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The alchemist in Mexico City.
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“The most important architectural work of my life”: That’s how legendary architect Juan O’Gorman remembered the home he built in 1954 on a natural lava cave in the Mexico City neighborhood of El Pedregal.
Last month, the only existing scale model of O’Gorman’s mystical “Casa Cueva” landed improbably in New York’s Noguchi Museum, along with three more takes on cavernous habitation by Mathias Goeritz, Carlos Lazo, and Javier Senosiain.
The model of O’Gorman’s house is significant because Casa Cueva no longer exists. Its destruction more than five decades ago — and the bitter discourse that it engendered — pitted two great artists against each other in what remains one of the most divisive episodes in the recent history of Mexican art.
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