A Shared Space
La Tallera Siqueiros Museum
Designed by Frida Escobedo
for Sala de Arte Publico Siquieros - La Tallera, Mexico
The architect Frida Escobedo has opened up the back of a museum dedicated to the work of Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros to form a new activity space. The Museum, originally built in 1965, was the house and studio of Siquerios. It sits besides a muralist's workshop, founded with the artist Diego Rivera in the 1920s as a place where techniques and skills could be learnt. Escobedo wrapped the whole complex in a wall of open lattice concrete brick, which lets in light and provides sight of the Museum. By repositioning two of Siqueiros's murals to face the plaza, the public areas - including the shop, cafe and bookshop - are demarcated from the artist's residence and workshop.
"Using singular materials and patterns in gentle and thoughtful ways, the result promises to be timeless." Beatrice Galilee
[Design Museum]
Part of Designs of the Year 2014 (exhibited March to August 2014)
A Shared Space
La Tallera Siqueiros Museum
Designed by Frida Escobedo
for Sala de Arte Publico Siquieros - La Tallera, Mexico
The architect Frida Escobedo has opened up the back of a museum dedicated to the work of Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros to form a new activity space. The Museum, originally built in 1965, was the house and studio of Siquerios. It sits besides a muralist's workshop, founded with the artist Diego Rivera in the 1920s as a place where techniques and skills could be learnt. Escobedo wrapped the whole complex in a wall of open lattice concrete brick, which lets in light and provides sight of the Museum. By repositioning two of Siqueiros's murals to face the plaza, the public areas - including the shop, cafe and bookshop - are demarcated from the artist's residence and workshop.
"Using singular materials and patterns in gentle and thoughtful ways, the result promises to be timeless." Beatrice Galilee
[Design Museum]
Part of Designs of the Year 2014 (exhibited March to August 2014)