Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo

This guide to the Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo in Mexico City follows a twenty-six-year-old architect, Juan O'Gorman, answering an unusual brief in 1931: two joined houses for two artists who could not share a room but refused to live apart. It traces the raw concrete and exposed pipes he borrowed from Le Corbusier, the blocks of red and blue marking Rivera's and Kahlo's separate studios, and the cactus hedge that replaced any conventional garden wall. Look up between the two blocks, where a narrow concrete bridge once crossed the gap at roof level.