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Topic Descriptor: http://icaa.mfah.org/vocabs/names/index.php?tema=8617×
Topic Descriptor (local): http://icaa.mfah.org/vocabs/names/index.php?tema=8617×
Name Descriptor: Museo Experimental El Eco (México, D. F., México)×

  • La arquitectura internacional a la zaga de la mala pintura
    Siqueiros, David Alfaro
    1954
    In forty paragraphs, David Alfaro Siqueiros outlines the process of artistic integration of Mexican architecture and painting that produced the Ciudad Universitaria, the Presidente Juárez Apartment Blocks and the Museo Experimental El Eco. For [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 786079

  • The sculpture "The Serpent of El Eco" : a primary structure of 1953
    Goeritz, Mathias, 1915-1990
    1970
    Mathias Goeritz writes about how Daniel Mont, an unusual patron of the arts, offered him a highly ambitious and at the same time the most exciting project he ever received: the design and construction, with total freedom, of a building in the center [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 757389

  • Highway sculpture : The Towers of Satellite City
    Goeritz, Mathias, 1915-1990
    1970
    Mathias Goeritz comments on his early obsession with the idea of vertical constructions. His first monumental tower (for the Museo Experimental El Eco) as well as the series of projects called “Arquitectura emocional” [Emotional Architecture] are [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 757382

  • ¿Arquitectura emocional?
    Goeritz, Mathias, 1915-1990
    1960
    In 1952, Daniel Mont invited Mathias Goeritz to construct “whatever he wanted.” Given such freedom, the sculptor developed the idea of Arquitectura Emocional [Emotional Architecture]: a structure that would contain the arts with the purpose of [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 741755