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The Architect · Alejandra · Mexico City

Museo Nacional de Antropología

Bosque de Chapultepec · Museum architecture · $$

Forget the artifacts a moment. The central patio — that vast umbrella roof on one carved pillar, water sheeting off it — is the masterpiece, and most visitors walk straight past it.

Ramírez Vázquez's museum, where one carved column holds a vast hovering canopy over the courtyard — one of modern Mexico's greatest structural moves.

— Alejandra, The Architect
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