Museo Tamayo. Arquitectura y cosmotécnica

The museum describes its building as tiered platforms "without windows or doors", turned 45 degrees to the courtyard. That building is the subject here, 45 years after the Tamayo opened and a century after its architect Teodoro González de León was born.

On the mezzanine, curator Luis Eguiarte reads the design by González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky through Yuk Hui's "cosmotechnics": how a culture's technique ties its values to nature. That means hammered concrete with crushed marble, and stepped roofs and sloping walls that make a pyramid rising out of Chapultepec, on land that was once the Azteca Golf Club. Older pyramids in this city went up over temples; this one went up over fairways.

Rubén Aguilar, at the 1981 opening, wrote in Mundo Nuestro that the open interiors and light still move him. When you leave the mezzanine, you are still inside the exhibit. Entry is MXN 95, free on Sundays, closed Mondays. Free Sunday architecture tours at 12:00 take 20 people and need registering a week ahead.