LUISBARRAGÁNHOUSE

1948 MX

GONZALO MENDOZA MORFIN 20128223arquitectura utl. exchange student: arquitectura unam, mx. | historia de arte contemporânea. adviser: Ph.D. Maria Calado 241012

THE WORK

NAME: LUIS BARRAGAN´S HOUSE & STUDIO

ARTISTIC AREA: ARCHITECTURE

DIMENSION: 1,161m2 in 2 floors

AUTHOR: LUIS BARRAGÁN MORFIN (Mexico 1902 - 1988)

LOCATION: TACUBAYA, MEXICO CITY. MEXICO.

YEAR/AGE: 1948 / 20th C.

ADDITIONAL DATA: Luis Barragan won the Pritzker Price in 1980, being the only one mexican architect who has won it. He made many projects which includes houses, churches and urban planes as the Ciudad Satélite and Jardines del Pedregal in Mexico City. Luis Barragan had an important participation in the landscape design of Ciudad Universitaria, UNAM's main campus, also in the mexican capital. -- In 2004 Barragan´s House & Studio were listed as UNESCO World Heritage.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT: In the 1940´s, Mexico began to transform itself from the agrarian to the urban, from the farm to de industrializaition. In arts side: Agustín Lara composed ´María Bonita´ and Mexico got it´s first Palme d´Or at the Cannes Film Festival with ´María Candelaria´ by Emilio Fernández. This was perhaps the most important decade for architecture in Mexico, mainly in Mexico City; where many projects were design and built with the aim to descentralize to the people from the downtown´s neighborhoods, but in these projects, all arts had space, in the named ́ Integración Plástica´ tendency.

CHARACTERIZATION: Modernist - Emotional Architecture

I´D LIKE TO VIEW WHAT HE MADE

SYNTHESIS

It is solid poetry, without letters but with color, without paper but perfect. Is a seduction game for the man who is playing there, and also for its own creator.

He guide us, he astonishes us, haunts us. Reader, walker and observer; engeneer, mexican and architect; Luis Barragán Morfin is author of the most delicious poems what have been conceived; his house is the main example, where the light penetrates the walls intimacy, where myth and spirit are the only guests. Is there where the man loses all his authority and he can be seduced by this unique house.

Magic and silence in its gardens, serenity in its rooms and beauty in every detail, produce the ´perfection´. Everyone who enters is delighted by nostalgy, desolation and death, by happiness and peace. Where inside but at the same time outside, with the heaven framed with pink walls and green trees, lies a great universe that Luis Barragán designed to us.

Today we need to understand him, and although Barragán said we should view what he saw, we must view what he made.

CREDITS & SOURCES

Texts.GONZALO MENDOZA MORFIN. Faculty of Architecture. UNAM Mexico.

Images.Cover © Casa Barragán.Poster © Arantxa Solis. Interiors © Casa Barragán / © René Burri / © Francesco Bandarin.UNESCO

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