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Fabricated by Enrique Cabrera Espinosa de los Monteros. Courtesy Javier Senosiain / Arquitectura Orgnica.  \nIn his 1977 The Prodigious Builders: Notes Toward a Natural History of Architecture, organicist and social historian Bernard Rudolfsky promoted a new understanding of nature-adjacent living, broadening Western architectural practices and its canonized hierarchy. He writes: “Without doubt, the fact that most caves are gratuitously supplied by nature puts them beneath contempt. Snug and delightfully solid as most of them are... they are not offered for rent or for sale, and the idea of inhabiting one never occurs to us.” Bitingly, he contends that we’ve come to understand caves as being for“cavemen only,”where “troglodytism — living in caves —amounts to disowning one’s status as a human being.”He was expanding on the unified vision of nature, human life, and the built environment that Frank Lloyd Wright set forth with the Organic Architecture  \nKeegan Brady, “Love from The Ground Up: Organic Architecture And Mexican Design,”PIN-UP, February 17, 2023.  \nMovement decades prior, bringing caves, earthen forms and terrestrial materials into modern life. Organic Architecture bears relevance to contemporary bio-architecture and design practices, which seek to reorient the artifice we’ve come to depend on and, in turn, reawaken a newfound kinship with the Earth.  \nA full-scale replica of Mathias Goeritz’s La Serpiente de El Eco (El Eco Serpent), 1953 (exhibition copy fabricated 2022), in Isamu Noguchi’s indoor-outdoor sculpture garden. Daniel Goeritz Rodríguez, © Mathias Goeritz.  \nRudolfsky’s text, sardonic as it may read, strikes a sobering chord in 2023. Increasingly, we’re confronted with the worsening status of our planet’s conditions, lack of feasible domestic development, and the need to shift our modes of living towards a greater network of interdependency with one another, as well as with nature. And now, this turn to the subterranean —framed vis-à-vis Rudolfksy’s proposition — is being explored in the Noguchi Museum exhibition In Praise of Caves: Organic Architecture Projects from Mexico by Carlos Lazo, Mathias Goeritz, Juan O’Gorman, and Javier Senosiain. The multi-gallery show spans some of Mexico’s greatest champions of Organic Architecture, showcasing a synchronistic set of Earth-centric architectural plans, urban planning projects, and sculptures that are both utopian as they are achievable, as evidenced by many of their real-life renderings.  \nKeegan Brady, “Love from The Ground Up: Organic Architecture And Mexican Design,”PIN-UP, February 17, 2023.  \nDocumentary model of the O’Gorman Cave-Studio House, 162 Avenue San Jernimo (1948–54, partially destroyed c. 1969), 2021–22. Stone, acrylic, styrene. Created by Senosiain Arquitectos; Coordinator: Enrique Cabrera Espinosa de los Monteros; Collaborators: Maril Martínez Tepecila, Anglica Ortiz Guerrero, María Fernanda Zarate Espinosa. Courtesy Javier Senosiain.  \nKeegan Brady, “Love from The Ground Up: Organic Architecture And Mexican Design,”PIN-UP, February 17, 2023.  \nSenosiain, a former student of Goeritz at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), is perhaps the most recognizable name of the group. His otherworldly park in Naucalpan, El Nido de Quetzalcóatl, is bookable on Airbnb and has witnessed a barrage of Instagram-driven attention, serving as the thematic nucleus to the show. Though each architect-artist has work featured throughout, it’s Senosiain’s prismaticallymosaiced, staggering snake bench, coiled around the columns of the museum’s central ground floor, where visitors can sit facing outward to absorb —and converse with —the pieces in their enveloping, subterrestrial totality.  \nThis element of immersion is what makes In Praise of Caves so exceptional: to varying degrees, Lazo, Goer","cbCaioXCFdnpFBAZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioXCFdnpFBAZ","pdf",338486,"English","# Love from the Ground Up: Organic Architecture and Mexican Design\n## Organic architecture as a natural-history vision\n## In Praise of Caves: Mexico’s Earth-centric projects\n## Immersive design and contemporary relevance\n## Friedman Benda and Everything Here is Volcanic","[{\"question\":\"How does Bernard Rudofsky’s writing relate to organic architecture in this piece?\",\"answer\":\"Rudofsky’s sardonic critique of caves and “troglodytism” is used to frame a broader reconsideration of nature-adjacent living. 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