"News today and tomorrow a ruin, buried and resurrected every day, lived together in streets, plazas, buses, taxis, movie houses, bars, hotels, pigeon coops and catacombs, the enormous city that fits in a room three yards square, and endless as a galaxy."
- Octavio Paz on Mexico City, 1976
Alejandro Castro’s Intervención
View through the plastic window of an agua fresca stand, Colonia Roma Norte
Wall and joinery detail of Intervención by Alejandro Castro’s, Museo Tamayo
Found quiet, found sky inside Alejandro Castro’s Intervención, Museo Tamayo
Exterior of Alejandro Castro’s Intervención, Museo Tamayo
Museo Nacionale de Anthropología
Repetition in the exterior of Museo Nacional de Anthropologia
Jardín de Botánico
Wooden crates scattered on the grounds of Bosque de Chapultepec
Local flora inside the glass greenhouse of Jardín Botánico
Sculpture Garden at Museo de Arte Moderno
Through a Sebastián at the sculpture garden of the Museo de Arte Moderno
Enjoying a break from afternoon rain against Sebastián's Arco de Roberto
Sebastián's beautifully etched signature below the sculpture
Lago de Chapultepec
Sitting along the edge of the pond at Lago de Chapultepec
Mexico City was a city built on shallow lake beds. When it rains, it floods; history of a sinking city.
Casa Luis Barragán
Soft light inside Mexican architect, Luis Barragan's home and studio
About Vanha Lam
Vanha Lam is a San Francisco-based designer and researcher practicing at the intersection of art, architecture, and technology. Founded Site and Stasis, an archive of disappearing architecture, emerging landscapes, and temporary interventions. Assisted with exhibitions through Department of Architecture, a pop-up architecture gallery. Curated Topography, a radio program broadcasting site-specific sound, sound art, and other forms of experimental music. Studied environmental design at the University of California, Davis.
Visit: www.vanhalam.net
Credits
Words
Vanha Lam
Photography
Sha Hwang
Mike Jacobs