In 1953, Mathias Goeritz designed “El Eco” in Mexico City, as pure emotional architecture. Goeritz’s emotion alludes the pre-Hispanic monumentality and prehistoric nature transformed into an alchemical process that makes use of color and gold. If emotion as a constitutive element of architecture is not linked to the concrete, can we build atmospheres of emotions from memories?

In the middle of a winter night, I remember Alfonso Reyes’s poem as a golden atmosphere that blinds my eyes and warms my skin. If in Goeritz pieces we perceive the nostalgic depth of the sun, in the poetry of Reyes we feel its depth. This project is the atmospheric construction of Monterrey’s sun through Alfonso Reyes’s poem “el Sol de Monterrey.”

Espacio Mexico, Montreal, Summer 2019.

Gabriel Peña Tijerina
https://www.gabriel-pena.com/