El Castillo de Chapultepec

El Castillo de Chapultepec — the first mansion-studio in the world — is a cultural institution in development managed by the architecture office APRDELESP: a superlocal site of artistic, spatial, political, and social experimentation driven by the desire to reconfigure and imagine alternatives built from collective efforts. Its character is forged through the memory and labor of many agents. It operates with a governance system based on the management of space, time, money, conversations, thoughts, critiques, et cetera.. Rather than competing with other existing institutions, it seeks to contribute a more critical, accessible, and high quality cultural infrastructure to Mexico City. It will be a place that fosters connections and dialogues to respond to the questions and interests of the present.

El Castillo de Chapultepec will soon open its doors and provide infrastructure for sharing, circulating, producing, exhibiting, and archiving the work of a local artistic community. It will consist of an archive, a library, an art collection, a printing press, an information kiosk and souvenir shop, a lobby-bar, a residence, an event space, et cetera.