This large body of work was brought together in the exhibition Ciudad Moderna (and it’s accompanying publication of the same title) at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in 2005-06 and is based on my excitement at first perceiving the great extent of the modern project evident in Mexico. All of these projects are as much explorations of strategies of representation in architecture—drawing, photography, film, models—as they are an exploration of what that architecture represents. Modern architecture in Mexico had distinct meanings to different sectors of society. In my video Ciudad Moderna modern architecture stands as a status symbol that communicates the sophistication of its owner. It is a commodity that can be bought and sold, taken off and put on, as described in my journal project The Castle, where much to the horror of a visiting architecture critic, one of Mexico’s modern masters cheerfully builds himself a mock-renaissance stone castle. And then there were the true functionalists, the builders of the schools, hospitals and housing projects with their amazing utilitarian beauty and boldness, even though Mexico hadn’t quite acquired all the tools of technological modernism. My video Polytechnic and my photo installation Functionalism, originally created for the Havana Biennial, are made in homage to these architects and engineers.