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Designed in 1931 by the architect and painter Juan O'Gorman, the house-studio that the muralist Diego Rivera and the artist Frida Kahlo occupied in the San Angel district of Mexico City is regarded as one of the first works of functionalist modern architecture in Latin America, and it now operates as a museum dedicated to the couple. O'Gorman, a close friend of Rivera and an admirer of the European modernist Le Corbusier, built not one but two separate houses, a larger one painted red and white ...