hopePlate 613 · Oaxaca, Mexico

Monte Albán

A flattened mountaintop of a city, a civilisation's terrace in the clouds.

c. 500 BCE – 750 CE · Zapotec builders · North America

The chamber score

La Llorona

Traditional son · Isthmus / Mexico

Pyramids and colonial naves share this lament.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO Zapotec capital, among Mesoamerica's great ceremonial centres.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Monte Albán through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Monte Albán was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.