McCormick Gallery

McCormick Gallery exhibits a range of design work that speaks to broad themes of design, architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, sustainability, historic preservation, and technology, and to the BAC’s values of social responsibility, accessibility, and diversity.

All exhibitions are free and open to the public so that the entire community can join together for public opening receptions and exhibition related lectures. Come visit us soon!

People viewing the 2022 Graduate Exhibit in the McCormick Gallery.

Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO: Research Center of the Sea of Cortez

A building that evokes that architecture can help us reconnect with nature, rather than isolate us from it. Courtesy of Tatiana Bilbao Estudio. Photo by Juan Manuel McGrath.

Tatiana Bilbao’s work explores fundamental human needs. The slow drawings and the hand facture of the models change the architecture. This sense of becoming through time is then embedded in the architectural work. Tatiana's collages create visual narratives that evoke a memory or an imagined world where her values are held.

The architecture of the Sea of Cortez Research Center fully demonstrates her imagination. This project creates a fictional past – and an architecture of ruin is brought into connection with its site and its ecologies. The project cares for aquatic species and the ecosystems in which they reside.

This exhibit focuses on one project of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO’s: the Sea of Cortez Research Center in Mazatlán, Mexico, 2017 - 2023. The exhibit concept plays with the gallery’s presence on Newbury Street under the overhanging eave. The firm envisioned a long table that appears to extend through the gallery’s glass window, mirroring the project itself. Just as the project connects two worlds, the table plays with this duality, reflecting both spaces through a platform that brings them together.

This exhibit will be open from Febrary 9, 2025, through May 9, 2025.

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