Luis Barragán

Luis Barragán (Guadalajara, March 9 1902 - Mexico City, November 22 1988) was one of the most important Mexican architects of the 20th century.

An engineer by training, he graduated from the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros in 1923 and was entirely self-taught as an architect. After graduation, he travelled extensively in Spain, France (where he attended lectures of Le Corbusier), and Morocco. He practiced architecture in Guadalajara from 1927-1936, and in Mexico City thereafter. In 1945 he created the planification and urbanization plan of the Jardines del Pedregal, and in 1955 he rebuilt the historical Convento de las Capuchinas Sacramentarias in Tlalpan, both located at the southern part of Mexico City. In 1957 he started the design of what would become Naucalpan's Satélite Towers, and in the same year he designed the residential Las Arboledas, few kilometers away from Satélite City. In 1964 he designed alongside architect Sordo Madaleno the Lomas Verdes residential, also near the Satélite area, inside Naucalpan, Estado de México.

In 1980, he became the second winner of the Pritzker Prize. His house and studio, built in 1948 in Mexico City, is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

External links

• Barragan Foundation - The Archives of Luis Barragán
• Barragán's Pritzker Prize citation

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