“Where do we find rest? How do we share our meals? Can the spaces we inhabit daily help us better nurture one another? How can we consciously expand the notion of domestic space into our cities to connect to each other? How might a living room or a kitchen relate to—and empower—a broader sense of community? -Curator Raymund Ryan's introductory text.
In Tatiana Bilbao: City of Rooms, Bilbao and her team examine the potential for domestic spaces to act in dialogue with one another and with the objects, rituals, urban patterns, and landscapes of contemporary life.
Five of the galleries within City of Rooms are assigned an individual room typology—kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room, and garden—with projects recently designed by the studio for Mexico and the United States. Each of these galleries is an installation in itself, with illustrations of domestic space, drawn directly onto the floors and walls, supplemented by models and archival materials. The sixth gallery is dedicated to colorful collages from the architects’ studio.
The projects displayed through the 1:100 models and archival materials include: Research Center of the Sea of Cortes (2023), Estoa – UDEM (2020), Santa Catarina Parish Church (ongoing), Culiacán Botanical Gardens (2004-ongoing), and Olive West (2020).
The exhibition communicates an approach to architecture filled with incident and capable of change across time. Tatiana Bilbao Estudio’s vision, research, and practice welcome us into an interdependent, vital, and mutually supportive urban fabric, a proverbial city of rooms.”
Tatiana Bilbao: City of Rooms is organized by Raymund Ryan, curator-at-large, Heinz Architectural Center.
The programs of the Heinz Architectural Center are made possible by the generosity of the Drue Heinz Trust.
Carnegie Museum of Art’s exhibition program is supported by the Carnegie Museum of Art Exhibition Fund and The Fellows of Carnegie Museum of Art.
Carnegie Museum of Art is supported by The Heinz Endowments and Allegheny Regional Asset District. Carnegie Museum of Art receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
