Louisiana Channel in Mexico and Africa
Two recently released architecture videos from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel look at architecture in Mexico and Africa, respectively speaking with Mexico City architect Carlos H. Matos and architect Omar Degan, founder and curator of the first Pan-African Architecture Biennale.
Carlos H. Matos
Speaking with Nanna Rebekka in his Mexico City studio in June 2025, Carlos H. Matos recounts the lineage of architecture in his family, with his father and both his grandfathers practicing, and describes some of his projects, including the Temazcal pavilion under construction at Lacasapark in Upstate New York. ”I like to weave in and out of the realm of architecture into sculpture and material experimentation,” Carlos H. Matos explains in the video. “Mexico is a place that enables experimentation.”
Watch “Carlos H. Matos: ‘I use architecture as a medium.’” below or on the Louisiana Channel website.
Omar Degan
Architect Omar Degan is founder and principal of DO Architecture Group, an international practice headquartered in Mogadishu, but in this interview conducted by Marc-Christoph Wagner at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art last month, Degan focuses on the Pan-African Architecture Biennale, whose inaugural edition will take place in Nairobi in September. “Africa has always been portrayed and defined through the lens of colonialism, exploitation, political instability, and migration,” Degan says in the interview. “With this Biennale, we aim to shift that discourse and ultimately to shift the center of the global discourse on Africa.”
Watch “Architect Omar Degan: Reinstating Africa on the Map of Architecture” below or on the Louisiana Channel website.