The architect which I will be directly talking about is Juan O Gorman (1905-1982)
Mexican muralist, revolutionary, mosaic artist and architect, whose career veered from Modernism to vernacular Surrealism.
Juan O’Gorman was born in Mexico City in 1905. His father, Cecil Crawford O’Gorman, was an Englishman of Irish origin who went to Mexico as a mining engineer. There he met his distant cousin, Encarnación O’Gorman, a pious woman who would give him four sons.
O’Gorman was the most Modernist of Modernist architects. Under the auspices of the Mexican Revolution he proposed a truly social and functionalist architecture he called the ‘engineering of buildings’, in which he took to extremes the principle of ‘minimum cost and maximum efficiency’.
Is frida kahlo a museum? Originally the house was the family home of Frida Kahlo, but since 1958, it has served as museum dedicated to her life and work. With about 25,000 visitors monthly, it is one of Mexico City’s most-visited museums, and the most-visited site in Coyoacán.
What this is based around is architectural innovations for the epoch. Which also includes a strong combination of functionalism, industrialism, alongside a Mexican tradition. He was well known for being a Mexican painter and an architect. The designed outcome was completed by the mid-1930s. Its current whereabouts is based in Mexico. The area of Alvaro Obregon. It more so elaborates itself as he owns 2 plots of land for housing.
The Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera currently portrays itself as a museum full of paintings more so. Coincidently both Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera house studios currently belongs to which was a friend to them Juan O’Gorman.
Its exposed with clay ceilings or even the bright red and blue colours which surrounds the atmosphere round the building, alongside the main obvious such as stilts, glass, concrete, and steel.
The architect relating to a loft by mentioning the terms such as a living space as the studio spaces own few partition walls. It’s been highlighted to be modest.
Something which catches my attention is the fact that there’s a bridge between both the housings which is a concrete bridge which connects Frida Diego houses which showed a lot of ingenuity. On top of including a cactus fence which surrounds the building putting forward the tradition of Mexico, which more surrounds itself with the tradition of the country.
When the lighting was considered, they added the fact It will have a full rotational angle of 180° daylight environment distributing the whole lighting around the whole room.
A block is red and represents Diego. The other is blue, representing Frida. The bridge that unites them is the bond of love between them. Whereas the whole structure was reinforced independently with concrete.
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