Museum
Casa Estudio Luis Barragán
Gral. Francisco Ramírez 12, Ampliación Daniel Garza, Amp Daniel Garza, Miguel Hidalgo, 11840 Ciudad de México, CDMX
Preserved modernist residence of pink, yellow and violet walls, courtyard gardens and controlled shafts of light.
This guide to Casa Estudio Luis Barragán in Mexico City opens with a strange exhumation: workers lifting the ashes of the architect from his tomb outside the city, at the request of artist Jill Magid. It follows her audacious plan to press those ashes into a diamond ring and offer it to the Swiss scholar who controls Barragán's professional archive, in exchange for bringing his life's work back to Mexico. Along the way it traces how his legacy split in two after his death in 1988, between this house and the papers sold abroad.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.