근대건축과 지역성 - 루이스바라간, 단게겐조

근대건축과 지역성: 남아메리카왿� 일본의 근대건축
Luis Barragan, Barragan Studio House, Tacubaya, Mexico City, Mexico, 1947
/Tange kenzo, City Hall, Kurashiki, Japan, 1957-1960

Luis Barragan (1902~1988)
"Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake."

Biography

1902 Born in Guadalajara. Barragán is brought up in his family's house there and their country estate in Jalisco.
1919 Studies engineering in Guadalajara, then switches to architecture.
1924 Travels through southern Europe before settling in Paris in 1925. Visits the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs there.
1926 Works for several years with his architect brother, Juan Jose, in Guadalajara mostly on family homes.
1931 Spends three months in New York where he befriends the artist, José Clemente Orozco. Returns to Paris and meets Le Corbusier and landscape architect, Ferdinand Bac.
1935 Moves to Mexico City after four frustrating years in Guadalajara.
1940 Over the next five years, Barragán plans and designs seven gardens including one for his own house on calle Francisco Ramirez.
1945 Plans a new development in El Pedegral, a lavafield outside Mexico City: highly influential in architectural circles, but commercially unsuccessful.
1952 Returns to Guadalajara to build a house for his friend, Dr Arriola.
1954 Begins a four year project to build the Tlálpan Convent, a masterly example of his use of colour and light.
1957 Designs the Torri Satélite, a cluster of towers on a traffic intersection in Mexico City.
1966 Starts work on the Folke Egerstrom House and Stables with the horse pond and fountain.
1975 After a fallow period in Mexico, a book by the architect, Emilio Ambasz, restores Barragán's international reputation.
1977 Exhibition of Barragán's work at MoMA, New York.
1980 Awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture.
1988 Luis Barragán dies in Mexico City and is buried in Guadalajara.

▶Roof terrace of Barragán’s home at Calle Ramírez (Mexico City,1947-1948)
▶Towers (Satellite City, Mexico City, 1957)
▶San Cristobal Stable, Pools and House (Mexico City, 1967)
▶Casa Galvez (Mexico City, 1955)

▶House 12 at Avenida de las Fuentes (Mexico City)
▶Barragan’s home at Calle Ramírez (Mexico City, 1945-1950)
▶Capilla de Tlalpan (Mexico City, 1954-1960)