The School of Visual Arts of Oaxaca / Taller de Arquitectura - Mauricio Rocha

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Text description provided by the architects. The School of Visual Arts of Oaxaca was developed at the request of the artist Francisco Toledo, in collaboration with the Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez. The lack of a master plan integrating the pre-existing buildings led to the project being designed as a large garden rather than just another building. At the same time, the building under construction on the campus were producing huge amounts of earth. These contingent factors suggested raising a bank of earth to provide the isolation necessary for an art school. Due to calendar and budgetary issues, the school was planned in three stages. The first two have already been built, giving form to what's become known as "the crater", which defines its perimeter with regard to the rest of the campus.

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Cite: "The School of Visual Arts of Oaxaca / Taller de Arquitectura - Mauricio Rocha" 29 Jul 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/154485/the-school-of-visual-arts-of-oaxaca-taller-de-arquitectura-mauricio-rocha> ISSN 0719-8884

瓦哈卡视觉艺术学院 / Taller de Arquitectura - Mauricio Rocha

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