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Luis Barragan's Gardens of El Pedregal (Building Studies)

Keith Eggener
Marc Treib

Luis Barragan

Luis Barragan's Gardens of El Pedregal (Building Studies)

The name Luis Barragan evokes images of Latin American modernism--brightly colored plain surfaces set off against lush foliage. His 1,250-acre Gardens of El Pedregal, begun in 1945 on the lava fields of south of Mexico City, were dotted with houses and plazas, fountains and ponds, cacti and pepper trees. Barragan considered El Pedregal his most important project, and critics have described the houses and gardens there as a turning point in Mexican architecture.

This book examines El Pedregal's program and form, its representation in architect-commissioned photographs and advertising, and its place within contemporary discourses on cultural identity, design and place, and suburbanization.

Like our highly acclaimed Revolution of Form, Luis Barragan's Gardens of El Pedregal offers an in-depth analysis of this now much altered project through original documents, drawings, color and black-and-white photography, and critical examinations of the design process.

From the dust jacket:

"A first, much-needed, in-depth study of the most enticing an...

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Barragan - Space and Shadow, Walls and Colour

Daniele Pauly

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The Life & Work of Luis Barragan

Jose M. Buendia Julbez
Juan Palomar

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Armando Salas Portugal photographs of the architecture of Luis Barragan

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The Architecture of Luis Barragan

Emilio Ambasz

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Juan Charrasqueado-Gabino Barrera [VHS]

Pedro Armendáriz
Miroslava
Fernando Soto
Arturo Martínez
Luis Aceves Castañeda

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Luis Barragan

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Luis Barragan

Rene Burri

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Luis Barragan

Luis Barragán (Guadalajara 1902-Mexico City 1988), one of Mexico's leading architects, is now accepted as a great master of the Modern Movement. The poetic images of his houses and gardens, of the walls and fountains so characteristic of his work have all become icons of modern Mexican architecture. His masterpieces are famous for their innovative use of colour and for their reduced and abstract formal language. They harmoniously combine the modern and the traditional, nature and architecture giving results which, although closely linked to the context in which they were born, also assume international relevance. For the first time since Luis Barragán passed away, the wealth of drawings, documents and original photographs in his archives--now conserved at the Barragan Foundation in Switzerland--has been made available to a group of scholars of international standing and studied systematically. The essays collected in this volume are the result of intense scrutiny of the Barragán Archives and the many public and private collections in Mexico, Europe and the USA. A...

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Luis Barragan

Federica Zanco

Luis Barragan

Humberto Spindola

Interventions in the Architecture of Luis Barragan

Miquel Adria, Lily…

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