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GONZALO MENDOZA MORFIN 20128223

arquitectura utl. exchange student: arquitectura unam, mx. | historia de arte contempornea. adviser: Ph.D. Maria Calado 241012

LUIS

BARRAGN 1948 MX HOUSE

THE WORK
NAME: LUIS BARRAGANS HOUSE & STUDIO ARTISTIC AREA: ARCHITECTURE DIMENSION: 1,161m2 in 2 floors AUTHOR: LUIS BARRAGN 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 Satlite 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 Barragans House & Studio were listed as UNESCO World Heritage.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT: In the 1940s, Mexico began to

transform itself from the agrarian to the urban, from the farm to de industrializaition. In arts side: Agustn Lara composed Mara Bonita and Mexico got its first Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival with Mara Candelaria by Emilio Fernndez. 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 downtowns neighborhoods, but in these projects, all arts had space, in the named Integracin Plstica tendency. CHARACTERIZATION: Modernist - Emotional Architecture

ID 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 Barragn 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 Barragn designed to us. Today we need to understand him, and although Barragn 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 Barragn. Poster Arantxa Solis. Interiors Casa Barragn / Ren Burri / Francesco Bandarin.UNESCO CASA BARRAGN. The Barragan Foundation. Switzerland. Sveiven, Megan. ADCLASSICS: CASA BARRAGN/LUIS BARRAGN. 10012011. ArchDaily [24102012] <http://www.archdaily.com/102599> Zanco, Federica; Ilaria Valente. GUA BARRAGN. Arquine. 2012. Mexico. [ISBN 9786077784036] FUGA Arquitectura. Arquitectura Espiritual at ARQUITECTURAYPUNTO. Year 1 Issue 3. MXICO.

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