In her newly published book, Mesoamerican Modern: Ancient Ideas in Contemporary Mexican Homes (Phaidon, 2026), Su Wu–author, curator and leading advocate for Mexican design–explores the living presence of Mesoamerican cultures in a Modern architecture and design movement distinctly of the Americas.
In these spaces of private reflection, ancient ideas are treated not as relics of prehistory but as vital sources of technical expertise and symbolic significance. In assembling the elements that together constitute this engagement with the past, she reveals a larger understanding, one at the heart of what was so blatantly mislabeled as New World. Rather, it is the oldest ideas driving an expanded narrative of material, craft and care—and creating nothing less than a new New World. The future of design is being rewritten in Mexico.
A book signing follows the presentation.
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