![]() ![]() There, it is staged amid works by artist Isamu Noguchi, who did not himself dabble in the domestic adaptation of caves but whose sunken gardens and biomorphic sculptures are sublime tributes to the endless formal possibilities of topography. ![]() That changed with the recent arrival of the complete maquette, first shown last year at INBA’s Museo Nacional de Arquitectura and now as part of the exhibition In Praise of Caves. Its relative obscurity is due at least in part to a dearth of documentation: The house was acquired and transformed in 1969 by Helen Escobedo, artist and and longtime director of the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s (UNAM) Fine Art Department, and for decades, only a scattering of photographs testified to its grandeur. Elsewhere, O’Gorman’s fantastical dwelling has mostly remained a niche curiosity, the province of specialized blogs and expert scholarship. With its kaleidoscopic, Gaudí-esque mosaics and overflowing gardens, Casa Cueva has long been a subject of fascination and myth-making in Mexico.
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