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The most complete, updated monograph on Mexico’s greatest modern architect with unpublished materials from the Barragan archives, which permits a detailed reconstruction of his work and the complex creative process of his designs.
Luis Barragan was one of the most extraordinary figures in international architecture between the 1930s and the 1970s.
His work offers a unique interpretation of the perspective of Mexican structural tradition and landscape.
After his formative years in Guadalajara, Barragan’s design activity developed from the late ’30s primarily in Mexico City where, after an initial phase influenced by European modernist models, the architect accomplished his greatest masterpieces—the Pedregal residential complex (1945-50), the house of the architect (1947), the chapel of Tlalpan (1955), the residential complex of Los Clubes (1964)—under conditions of silent isolation. The awarding of the Pritzker Prize to his work in 1980 was the definitive recognition of Barragan’s architecture.
This monograph assembles the complete work of the great architect, with iconographic material from the Barragan archives never published before.
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