ABSTRACT
At the time of its completion, La Casa Estudio de San Angel Inn was a bold
statement by its designer, Juan O’Gorman, but any description of O’Gorman’s
house-studio for Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera must include the famous couple
themselves. Frida and Diego are symbols who require an acknowledgment of
the inextricable links between social and cultural history, between personal
narratives and architectural history. Few couples are comprised of individuals
whose lives merited the attention of voluminous and numerous biographies,
and countless studies devoted to them.1
