so you've been to mexico city, eh...?

the "building" (aka UNAM Central Library)

at juan o'gorman's 1933 technical school:

(photo: liz lessig)

outside mathias goeritz's el eco experimental museum:

at the office of nuevo espiritu (fernando vasconcelos):

(photo: liz lessig)

the "traditional" photograph with don quijote and sancho panza (at our hotel)

at cafe de tacuba

(trying to make sure that everyone was well fed...)

our one "fancy" meal at san angel inn

(after the diego rivera/frida kahlo studio):

(photo: liz lessig)

if only...

architectural projects could be like pop-up books.

... like this:

[the rest of the images are here]

beginnings...

it was noted earlier that adding to the unam library was akin to reproducing a great painting...

and, since we don't do that anymore, we think about it differently...

adding to o'gorman, martinez, and saavedra's library should be considered as the "equivalent of sinking the painting" in order to create an "other" that is radically different but, simultaneously, based on the original: a minor production within the parameters of the first.

interactions

the building that is most precious to a nation is undoubtedly one which houses all acquired knowledge.

- etienne-louis boullée

projected entry to boullée's library

socratic dialogue around the book in boullée's library

searching for books in seattle

so you want to go to mexico city...

citambulos

(on the artificiality of the real): manifesto

we live today in the age of partial objects, bricks that have been shattered to bits, and leftovers. we no longer believe in the myth of the existence of fragments that, like pieces of an antique statue, are merely waiting for the last one to be turned up, so that they may all be glued back together to create a unity that is precisely the same as the original unity. we no longer believe in a primordial totality that once existed, or in a final totality that awaits us at some future date. we no longer believe in the dull gray outlines of a dreary, colorless dialectic of evolution, aimed at forming a harmonious whole out of heterogeneous bits by rounding off their rough edges. we believe only in totalities that are peripheral.

deleuze and guattari, anti-oedipus