This is a pro­to­type mod­eled on the blocks of flats of Mex­ico City’s Tlatelolco hous­ing com­plex. Tlatelolco is strik­ing for the graphic beauty of its orig­i­nal façade de­signs—now lost un­der post-1985 but­tress­ing—and for the com­plex’s vast scale. The work Tlatelol­cona (tr: gi­ant Tlatelolco) com­mu­ni­cates the ex­cite­ment of ar­chi­tect Mario Pani’s first vi­sion of a hous­ing so­lu­tion for Mex­ico City; the mod­ern ar­chi­tect’s dream of or­der out of chaos. The work high­lights the orig­i­nal vi­sion of the com­plex’s ar­chi­tect Mario Pani, be­fore it came to rep­re­sent the tragedies of the 1968 stu­dent mas­sacre and the 1985 earth­quake.

Doc­u­men­ta­tion: In­stal­la­tion at New Mu­seum; de­tail of print el­e­ment