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Dictionary of
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Luis Barragan
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Luis Barragan
(b Guadalajara, 9 March 1902; d Mexico City,
22 Nov 1988).
Mexican architect. As no architectural course was offered in
Guadalajara, he entered the city’s Escuela Libre de Ingenieros,
graduating in 1924. He then undertook complementary studies to
qualify as an architect, but these were cut short by a trip to
Europe (1925–6), which included a visit to southern Spain; here he
was able to study Spain’s Moorish architectural heritage and to
become familiar with the theories of the French writer, painter and
landscape architect Ferdinand Bac (1859–c. 1940). On his return to
Mexico, he worked on a series of houses in Guadalajara (e.g. Casa
Cristo, 1929), preserving in them the spirit of the local colonial
vernacular architecture. In 1932 he visited Europe again and
attended Le Corbusier’s lectures in Paris, assimilating the
teachings advocated by the latter in his L’Esprit nouveau. In 1936
he settled in Mexico City, but the Corbusian influences became
apparent in a number of residential buildings ranging from a group
of houses in the Parque México (1936), Mexico City, to a series of
apartment buildings (1936–40) in the Cuauhtémoc development, Mexico
City, all of which were constructed with great economy of means and
with a clearly commercial goal.
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Fuente de los Amantes,
Los Clubes, 1966
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Cuadra San Cristobál,
Los Clubes, 1966-68
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Torres Satélite, Mexico City, 1957
Luis Barragan
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