“Mexico City is incredibly dynamic: you’ll be driving down a massive boulevard styled after the Champs-Élysées and suddenly you pass the Chapultepec aqueduct, which dates back to the ancient Aztecs,” says filmmaker Jordan Bahat, who looked up architectural heroine Tatiana Bilbao as he passed through the bustling capital, resulting in this filmic tête-à-tête. This sense of the very new colliding with the historic to create an ever-expanding cityscape has kept Bilbao perpetually inspired since her childhood. Building an international reputation for her considered, contemporary structures, her projects are at once starkly geometric and soulfully human. One of her best-known projects is Observatory House, the cliffside home of Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, inspired by an 18th-century astronomical observatory in Delhi. It was this particular building that peeked Bahat’s curiosity after meeting artist Adrián Villar Rojas, who shares the same Mexico City gallery as Orozco: Kurimanzutto. “I wanted to analyze and contrast the differences between art and architecture,” says the Los Angeles-based director. “Villar Rojas’ often monumental and sculptural work has at times incorporated architecture, and Bilbao’s architectural process, and the works themselves can be looked at as art.”