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Mexican architect Luis Barragan (1902-88) was one of the twentieth century’s most creative designers and one of its best-known architects. Self-taught, he achieved international renown for his remarkable personal artistic vision. Using vegetation, water, primary geometric forms, and vivid colors, Barragan created a poetic and painterly yet elegantly simple architectural style that transformed the Mexican building tradition into an abstract architectural language. This revised edition of our best-selling monograph – the first comprehensive compilation of Barragan’s work (102 buildings and 12 additional projects) – contains new photographs and an updated bibliography. Its intelligent analyses and superb illustrations demonstrate the complexity and scope of this genius, as both an architect and a landscape designer.Barragan – The Complete Works collects over 300 illustrations including Barragan’s drawings; photographs of his work; re-drawn plans, elevations, and scale models of important projects; texts by Alvaro Siza, Antonio Toca, and J. M. Buendia, as well as an essay by Barragan himself; and an unabridged transcription of his Pritzker Prize acceptance speech. this book is the essential compendium on the work of this great master architect. ... Read more

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Barragan: The Complete Works
I extolled the first edition of this definitive, splendidly illustrated survey when it appeared in 1996, and urge you to add it to your shelves if you haven't already. Luis Barragan (1902-88) was a master of earthy yet sophisticated buildings that had nothing to do with style and look better with every year that passes. This revised edition is little changed, but for an update of the bibliography and a perceptive essay by Antonio Ruiz Barbarin, from which I learned that Barragan was an almost exact contemporary of Marcel Breuer, Lucio Costa, Arne Jacobsen, and Ivan Leonidov. Truly a vintage year! (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)

be inspired
for a sensitive humane and theatrical perception of space color and interaction of mater and living creatures is the legacy of a great muster, his buildings as elements of a living construction interact with the elements of life, viewing the composition is relaxing and inspiring.

Great photographs of works by Mexico's Greatest Architect.
Luis Barragan's gift to twentieth-century architecture is inspiring. His impressive sensitivity, simplicity, and masterful use of color, was captured here for generations of architects to enjoy. ... Read more

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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. Accompanid by outstanding visual representations, they present a fresh evaluation of Barragán's personality and his work--which managed to quietly interpret the revolutionary aspects of Modern architecture.
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great photographer
if you think this photographs are good, you should look for more of the Salas Portugal works, definetely one of the best mexican landscape photographers.

Great architecture seen through great images.
Portugal's photographs of Lois Barragan's unique and timeless buildings are some of the best architectural photography I have ever seen. The majority of books on architects destroy the essence and soul of great designs due to poor, cold, and lifeless images. In this book, the images and the buildings within them raise each other to a higher level. Excellent choice for anyone interested in Modernism and Mexican architecture ... Read more

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Barragan... Not only a photogenic architect!
Martinez write a very interesting books comparing to others about barragan... The reason is that beside beautiful pictures (they are also wonderful in this books), we can understand the context: artistic, geographic or politics, which make evolve his architecture, At the end of the books there are a full chronological list of his project with text and photography. ... Read more

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Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988) is famous throughout the world for his charming treatment of colour and space, and he has been a focus of general interest for many years. His unique persona and his wonderful buildings, invite us to renew our acquaintance time and time again. In this monograph, Danièle Pauly, provides an overview of his life and his architectural oeuvre. Chronologically she delineates in detail the biography of Barragán, his Mexican roots, the Mediterranean influences, his Functionalist period, and finally the steps to maturity as a consummate architect. All Barragán's significant buildings are documented comprehensively and analysed in the light of his life. This is enhanced with attractive illustrations all of which reveal Barragán's masterly, almost magical touch with space and shadow, walls and colour. This publication celebrates Barragán's undeniably important contribution to world architecture with a distinct new clarity. ... Read more

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A Barragan "Teaser" At Best
This is a short, quirky little book, that reads more like a short book of poetry than a book on architecture or on the great architect luis barragan. It does have a few enticing pictures of his works and a few lines that offer insights into barragan's character. But it's hardly a definitive or essential work. Barragan fanatics probably want it for the collection. Fans but non-fanatics should look elsewhere.

Good, Not Great
There are some very beautiful photographs and thought abstactions from the master, but this is not specifically an architectural peice of literature, as I expected it to be. It does capture some intriguing spacial conditions, but the artistic context appears in more of photographical context.

Absolutely stunning book!
If you are interested in works by Mexican architects, like the recent AIA award winner Legorreta, this book is a must-have. It's filled with beautiful photographs of Barragan's works. The book is an artwork by itself. Phaidon scores again! ... Read more

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Luis Barragan is an icon of contemporary architecture-a genius of color, light, walls, the garden, the tower, the rooftop, he has influenced an entire generation of current architects, not least of them his one-time collaborator Ricardo Legorreta. Admirers of his work note its serenity, its harmony. In 1979, when Barragan was presented the Pritzker Prize, his work was referred to as "a sublime act of the poetic imagination." It is this aspect of Barragan's work that is presented in The Life and Work of Luis Barragan, a biographical portrait that reveals Barragan as a master of what he himself called "emotional architecture."

Barragan's impressions and influences are recorded here, from his early years in Gudalajara to his work in Mexico City, and his highly inspiring travels in the Alhambra, the villages of Greece, and northern Africa. His rejection of the concepts of Le Corbusier and the International Style, and his embrace of the ideas of the French intellectual, painter, and landscape architect Ferdinand Bac provided valuable framework for understanding both the theory and form of Barragan's oeuvre.

Brilliant color photographs record Barragan's vibrant work as it has never been seen before, including generous interior shots of such varied projects as Casa Cristo in Guadalajara, and Casas Galvez, Egerstrom, and Meyer, all from his Mexico City years. Barragan was perhaps first and foremost a landscape architect, and this book spotlights his gardens, and his vanguard, landscape-based approach to architecture itself-centered on the close relationship between landscape, color, and architecture in Mexico and the other lands that inspired him.

Text and photographs combine in The Life and Work of Luis Barragan for a personal and evocative portrayal of the Mexican master that will fascinate everyone familiar with his legacy, and intrigue those who are only just discovering the power and influence of his work.
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Good effort but there's a better alternative
If readers are looking for a concise book on Luis Barragan, this book is NOT it. Rather, you are urged to look at Luis Barragan: The Complete Works which not only have architecture pictures but also detailed discussions by few academics & even Luis Barragan acceptance speech of his winning of the prestigious Pultizer prize. But if readers are just a pedestrian reader on architecture like me, you would appreciate this book for it contains beautiful photography (sometimes, pictures of the same thing taken from different angles) & GENERAL discussions upon Luis' refusal to conform to any particular architecture movements but rather following his vision of how an architecture should be depicted. He's not only an architect but an architect & artist combined, a sensible & faithful individual to his culture, core values. The readers are also given a quick overview of his exit from Guadalajara & his rising from ashes in Mexico, inspirations that he attained from his trip to the Meditarrenean & Africa (namely Morroco), his relationships & eventual downfall with artists that he worked with. Overall, a good effort but superficial for the academics.

Attempting to Capture the Designs of Luis Barragan
The Life and Work of Luis Barragan, successfully depicts all of the qualities and aspects which encompases the modern architecture of Barragan. This book also carefully examines the artistic forms present in Barragan's designs of structure, landscape and furniture. After reading this book, it becomes appearant why the work of Luis Barragan is so prestigous and brillant. However, this book fails to address his architecture as a whole, and how the space created interacts with it's environment. The book requires diagrams and photographs, which include the structure and its landscaping, along with the surrounding environment inorder to completely define the work and experiences of Luis Barragan. However, I highly recomend this book to anyone interested in the architecture of Mexico.

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Title: Pretenden trasladar la biblioteca de Luis Barragn de Guadalajara a Mxico.(TT: They want to move the Luis Barragan library from Guadalajara to Mexico.)
Author: Felipe Cobin
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Date: December 31, 2000
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Title: Recent Donations Help Get Gym Back on Its Feet.(Carlos Barragan Sr.'s gym and youth program)(Brief Article)
Author: MARION WEBB
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 23, 2001
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Volume: 22Issue: 30Page: 40

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Title: Arquitectura: Luis Barragn, admirado en el extranjero y olvidado en Mxico.(TT: Architecture: Luis Barragan, admired in foreign countries and forgotten in Mexico.)
Author: Jan Van Herck
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 16, 2000
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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The Barragán Guide presents architect Luis Barragán's constructed works to a larger public, providing keys to his creative evolution and his cultural context. Following the volume's itinerary through three Mexican cities--Guadalajara, Mexico City, and Monterrey--provides not only a chronological survey of Barragán's surviving work, but also an interesting experience of three urban realities that constitute the basis of his architectural practice and the context of the work of his followers. Born and raised in the provincial town of Guadalajara, Barragan performed his first experiments there before moving to the more open and fertile creative environment of the capital, where rapidly growing new neighborhoods provided a wealth of opportunities for an ambitious young architect. It was on the outskirts of Mexico City that Barragán's vision of a new way of living, at once modern and Mexican, took shape in the late 1940s, in the form of a sophisticated residential development known as Jardines del Pedregal. The project won international acclaim and Barragán moved on to create a series of masterpieces: his own house, the houses built for the Prieto Lopez and Galvez families, the monument known as Satellite Towers, and the outstanding residential developments of Las Arboledas and Los Clubes are but a few examples of his singular way of dealing with nature and architecture as two key elements of the intimate relation between inside and outside, between constructed and non-constructed environments.

Essays by Ilaria Valente, Federica Zanco, Fernanda Canales.
Foreword By Felipe Leal.

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Title: La pastoral homosexual del padre Zimbrn "contradice los designios de Dios", dictamin Javier Lozano Barragn desde el Vaticano.(TT: The homosexual pastoral of father Zimbron "contradict Gods will", considers Javier Lozano Barragan from the Vatican.)
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Date: April 4, 1999
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Author: Miguel Adri
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Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 4Issue: 39Page: 92

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Overlooked Architect
Luis Barragan is one of the most over looked genius's of our time. Not only was he a brilliant architect but one might say he was the one of first ergonomicly concern architect. It so sad that Latin American architects get overlooked by publishers. especialy since Luis recieved one of the highest honors a architect can recieve. ... Read more

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Title: La Familia Barragan; The Barragans have joined the emerging Mexican middle class in Arcadia, but they still remember - fondly - their years in the orange groves.(FLORIDA WEST)
Author: Thomas Becnel
Publication: Sarasota Herald Tribune (Newspaper)
Date: November 26, 2000
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