La Casita en la Colonia Altamira Calle Rio de Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana: multi-colored fence and garden

Patricia Patterson's inSITE97 project was a collaborative effort to transform a small home in Tijuana into a visually captivating space for the surrounding community to meet, talk, eat, and engage in activities with one another. Working over a period of nine months, Patterson and her team of students and craftsmen renovated, painted, and landscaped the home of the Resendiz family to create a vibrant center in the residential colonia. Once complete, "La Casita en la Colonia Altamira, Calle Rio de Janeiro No. 6757, Tijuana" hosted numerous parties, brunches, and other gatherings of both local residents and visitors from San Diego, making the house a space for cross-cultural exchange and diversity. --inSITE97

• 1997

• Chávez, Patricio

• InSITE97

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 273)

Colonia Altamira, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)

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• InSITE97

• Mexican-American border region

• Fences
• Installations (visual works)
• Public art

• Architecture (object genre)
• Border art
• Color
• Gardening
• Houses
• Landscape architecture
• Neighborhoods
• Painting (coating)
• Renovation

• image

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• inSite Archive

Architecture and City Planning

Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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2020-10-26