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Exhibition

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

Architecture from Outside In
July 17, 2021–March 27, 2022
Floor 6

Mexico City–based architect Tatiana Bilbao considers domesticity from policy to livability. Models, drawings, and photographs illustrate Bilbao’s extensive research and proposals in response to how we live today. At the beginning of the design process, the architect and her firm Tatiana Bilbao Estudio take time to identify less visible external factors that influence and shape architecture, such as developer goals and civic regulations, as well as meeting with future inhabitants. This “outside in” approach is expansive, but yields greater understanding and accommodation for contemporary lifestyles.

Visitors are invited to consider how advocacy, city planning, architecture, and development shape society. The drawings, collage, and models on view represent built and unbuilt projects, and are shown together in a large-scale, hand-drawn landscape covering the gallery walls. One section of the exhibition brings into focus the San Francisco neighborhood Hunters Point, whose residents — predominantly people of color — have been subject to years of environmental injustice. Confronting the social and political contexts in which architects work, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio aims to prompt conversation around how to collaboratively transform formerly sequestered neighborhoods into sustainable, inclusive communities.


Exhibition Preview

Tatiana Bilbao, Tatiana Bilbao: Architecture from Outside In, 2020 (installation view, SFMOMA); photo: Katherine Du Tiel
Tatiana Bilbao, Tatiana Bilbao: Architecture from Outside In, 2020 (installation view, SFMOMA); photo: Katherine Du Tiel
Tatiana Bilbao, Torre Guatemala, 2015; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund Purchase; © Tatiana Bilbao Estudio; photo: Katherine du Tiel
Tatiana Bilbao, (Not) Another Tower,2017; collection SFMOMA, Accessions
Committee Fund Purchase; © Tatiana Bilbao Estudio; photo: Katherine Du Tiel
Tatiana Bilbao, (Not) Another Tower,2017 (detail); collection SFMOMA, Accessions
Committee Fund Purchase; © Tatiana Bilbao Estudio; photo: Katherine Du Tiel
Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, Model for Ways of Life House, Scheid, Germany (2017-present), 2020

Generous support for Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Architecture from Outside In is provided by The Sanger Family Architecture and Design Exhibition Fund.

Meaningful support is provided by the Gensler Family Foundation and Emily Rauh Pulitzer.

Header Image: Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, Collage for Casa Tortugas, Bahia de Banderas, Mexico (2018-present), 2021; Tatiana Bilbao Estudio