El Castillo de Chapultepec
The first mansion-studio in the world
El Castillo de Chapultepec is a cultural center in development managed by the architecture office APRDELESP: a superlocal site of artistic, economic, spatial, political, and social research and experimentation, driven by the desire to imagine alternatives built from the sum of collective efforts. Its character is forged through the memory and labor of many agents related to the local artistic community. It operates with a governance system based on the management of space, time, money, conversations, thoughts, critiques, risks, et cetera. Rather than competing with other existing institutions, it seeks to contribute critical infrastructure to Mexico City to host dialogues based on our lines of questioning, differences, and interests.1 It consists of an archive, a collection, a kiosk, a library, a lobby, a printing press, a salon, et cetera.
