Museo Experimental El Eco

The Museo Experimental El Eco is a contemporary art gallery in the centre of Mexico City, Mexico.[1] It was designed by sculptor Mathias Goeritz, a Mexican artist of German origin[2] who worked closely with the Mexican architect Luis Barragán.[3] Originally built in 1952–53, the gallery was extended by FR-EE/Fernando Romero Enterprise in 2007 "to expand its offices and special services to improve daily operations".[3]

Museo Experimental el Eco
Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo Experimental El Eco is located in Mexico City
Museo Experimental El Eco
Location within Mexico City
Museo Experimental El Eco is located in Mexico
Museo Experimental El Eco
Museo Experimental El Eco (Mexico)
Established1952 (1952)
LocationSullivan 43
Colonia San Rafael
Cuauhtémoc
Mexico, 06470
Coordinates19°26′00″N 99°09′40″W
DirectorPaola Santoscoy
Public transit accessMexico City Metrobús, lines A1, A2, A3 and A5
Websiteeleco.unam.mx

History of the building

In 1952, businessman Daniel Mont commissioned artist Mathias Goeritz to build a place that would articulate a new relationship between his commercial interests of a restaurant-bar and the avant-garde spirit of some cultural actors of the time, with the intention of finding something different from what was established. Under the premise "do whatever you want", Goeritz conceived the space on Sullivan Street in Mexico City. It was designed as a poetic structure whose layout of corridors, ceilings, walls, rooms and openings led its visitors to reflect their experience of space in an emotional act; This concept challenged the dominant interests of functionalism in architecture at that time. Based on his "Manifesto of emotional architecture", his writings also refer to inspiration of religious experiences and Gothic and Baroque architecture.

Goeritz conceived the building as a penetrable sculpture. This space was the creation of an unprecedented platform for the arts in the context of Mexican and international art of the 1950s.

In 2004, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México bought the building which re-opened its doors on 7 September 2005 after many months of restoration work to bring the building back to its original state.[4] The project was intended to revive Goeritz's architectural legacy.[5]

Pabellón Eco
Pavilion for architecture competition at the Museo Experimental el Eco in Mexico City.

In 2008, the museum initiated a national architecture competition to continue the legacy of spatial experimentation that hosts an interdisciplinary art program. The project offers a platform for young Mexican architects and is co-produced with Buró—Buró,[6] an independent non-profit cultural office. The museum also organizes a conference around experimental architecture called Pabellón Eco: Panorama.[7]

Pavilion winners:

  • 2010: Frida Escobedo
  • 2011: Estudio MMX
  • 2012: Luis Aldrete
  • 2013: Estudio Macías-Peredo
  • 2015: Taller Capital[8]
  • 2016: APRDELESP[9]
  • 2018: Taller TO[10]
  • 2020: Cronoboros[11]

Publications
Luis Aldrete was the 2013 Winner of the architecture pavilion competition at Museo Experimental el Eco in Mexico City. View from the interior.
  • Ensayo de Miguel A. González Virgen, 2006
  • Estamos hartos (otra vez), Mauricio Marcin and Ida Rodríguez, 2014
  • Autodestrucción 2, Abraham Cruzvillegas, 2014
  • La Chinche (2014-2015), Mauricio Marcin (Ed.), 2015
  • Jugador como pelota, pelota como cancha, Felipe Mujica, 2015
  • La disonancia de El Eco, David Miranda, 2015 (reedición 2017)
  • La perla de la ostra, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Escalante and Carlos Reygadas, 2019
  • La conquista del Pedregal, Julio García Murillo and David Miranda, 2019
  • Abstracción Temporal. Museo Experimental el Eco (2010), Tobias Ostrander (Ed.), 2011
  • Arquitectura Emocional. Museo Experimental el Eco (2011), Macarena Hernández (Ed.), 2012
  • Re vista #1 (2012), Macarena Hernández (Ed.), 2013
  • Re vista #2 (2013), Macarena Hernández and Luis Felipe Ortega (Eds.), 2014
  • Re vista #3 (2014), Macarena Hernández (Ed.), 2016
  • Re vista #4 (2015 y 2016), Macarena Hernández (Ed.), 2018

References
  1. "Museo Experimental el Eco". Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  2. "MUSEO EXPERIMENTAL EL ECO: THE SCULPTURE OF MATHIAS GOERITZ", MXCITY.MX, Retrieved on 19 February 2018.
  3. "El Eco Museum Extension, Mexico City, Mexico", Architizer, Retrieved on 19 February 2018.
  4. "Buscador de Arquitectura". Archived from the original on 2009-10-01. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  5. Periódico El Universal
  6. Buró—Buró
  7. "Pabellón Eco: Panorama". 22 February 2017.
  8. Arquine: Pabellón Eco 2015
  9. "APRDELESP: ganador del Pabellón Eco 2016". ArchDaily México (in Mexican Spanish). 15 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  10. Arquine: Pabellón Eco 2018
  11. "Pabellón Eco 2020: Cronoboros". Museo Experimental el Eco. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
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