The joke goes like this: the person handing out woven mats for visitors to sit on while watching outdoor film screenings on the lawn of Mexico City's Cineteca Nacional is said to ask young couples if they would like one mat, or—lilting into a suggestive tone—two. The first is to place over the sometimes damp grass as everyone does, but the second is to use as a blanket for concealing more serious make-out sessions. It may be a winking exaggeration of the teenage hijinks that go on at the Cineteca, but the joke is revealing. With an expansion of the institution, Rojkind Arquitectos has turned a repository for Mexico's cinematic history into a public space that welcomes the sometimes unruly life of this teeming city.
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