![]() ![]() Territorial-era sash windows and cabinetry similar to Housing and Urban Development interiors reference more recent history. Interiors have rounded and square vigas, split-cedar latillas, and corner fireplaces with pottery chimneys. At roof level are ladders, parapets, and canales for draining rainwater, and Spanish-style colonnades wrap around the courtyard. Corner windows are both modernist tropes and evocations of similar openings in Chaco Canyon Great Houses, while T-shaped doorways echo Aztec Ruin but with the higher jambs of Acoma. The Cultural Center juxtaposes modern steel with Chacoan masonry and references to the Spanish Colonial mission. The Center’s mass obscures the mesa until one enters its lobby, when the spectacular cliffs and crowning pueblo appear suddenly, visible behind the welcome desk. ![]() Visitors approach from the north, passing stone masonry that represents ancestral ruins. Recalling Acoma origins, the Cultural Center restages a search for Haak’u. Sheets of mica window glazing provide fire and UV resistance, and external colonnades incorporate stone remnants from the original building as vending spaces for artists. Built with a steel frame, autoclaved aerated concrete walls, and finished in stone masonry and painted stucco, its colors and textures reflect those of old Acoma. Stepped massing emulates Acoma houses, while vertical windows and wall projections break up its shape akin to the pueblo’s landscape of narrow alleys and rock fissures. Oriented to landmarks such as Mount Taylor and Acoma Mesa, the center evokes the pueblo’s form with two parallel room blocks, a connecting lobby, and open courtyard between the two blocks. Vallo describes the hope that the building “ would bring people home, and ultimately represents this grand house that the Acoma people all share, and that we open up to visitors.” Submitted with a miniature exhibit of such materials as pottery, stone, adobe, and corn in a steel box designed to reference the pueblo, their proposal became the basis of the present building.įinished in 2006 and integrating a variety of historical references to avoid fixating on any single period, it accommodates a restaurant, gift shop, meeting rooms, gallery, research library, storage, and restricted repatriation areas. After wide-ranging community consultations, the tribe selected a joint proposal of Barbara Felix Architecture and Design and WoodMetalConcrete Architecture. In 2000, an earlier tourism center burnt down, necessitating planning of a 40,000-square-foot replacement on the same site. The Sky City Cultural Center and Haak’u Museum at the base of Acoma mesa is a gateway for visiting tourists, and represents Acoma’s culture through a modern synthesis of the pueblo’s architectural, visual, and oral histories.Īcoma was among the first Native American tribes to formalize its tourism program, which remains a critical revenue source. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to. If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).
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