Tamayo Art Museum
200best ES
Abraham Zabludovsky
Teodoro González de León
1981
Type
Museum
Tags
cultural facilities, in the park, local drive , art spaces , 200Best
Visitability
Allowed
Description
This cultural infrastructure was built to house the collection of Rufino Tamayo, which was donated to Mexico City on the condition that the museum would be located in the Chapultepec forest, an oasis of nature in the middle of the city. The architectural language of the project straddles the line between modern brutalism and pre-Hispanic architecture. It terms of its topography, it is perfectly integrated into the landscape, with slopes that anticipate the terraces of the building. This way, the museum emerges in the natural environment like a geological formation or a Mayan pyramid discovered in the middle of the forest. Visitors enter the building through a dark space and then reach a space with high ceilings and lit from above. The movement of people through the different rooms is continuous and longitudinal, inviting a continuous and lonely walk. In the words of González de León, “art is experienced as a solitary rite”.