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Barragán: Space and Shadow, Walls and Colour

Barragán: Space and Shadow, Walls and Colour
By Danièle Pauly

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Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988) is famous throughout the world for his seductive treatment of colour and space. His unique persona and remarkable buildings have attracted growing interest for many years. In this monograph, Danièle Pauly provides an overview of his life and his architectural oeuvre, his Mexican roots, the Mediterranean influences, his Functionalist period, and finally the steps to maturity as a consummate architect. All Barragán's major buildings are documented comprehensively and analysed in the light of his life, enhanced with attractive illustrations that reveal his masterly, almost magical touch with space and shadow, walls and colour - a celebration of Barragán's undeniably significant contribution to world architecture. Danièle Pauly is an art historian and professor at Paris Val de Seine School of Architecture. She researched the material for this monograph in the course of numerous study trips to Mexico. 

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #689043 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-07-25
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 231 pages

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About the Author

Danièle Pauly is the author of the Le Corbusier guide The Chapel of Ronchamp. She researched the material for this monograph in the course of numerous study trips to Mexico.

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The History of Luis Barragan1
I am an architect. There may be some published architecture that needs a lot of verbage. Luis Barragan's work does not.

Barragan's architecture and its pure emotion can be explained/expresed with floor plans and color photographs.

Barragan's work is the most colorful work in modern architecture. This book does not make a reasonable attempt to depict that fact. There are not enough photographs contained here and less than 1/3 of them are in color.

If you are interested in Barragan's history and architectural development, then maybe this book is for you. If you are interested in a visual description of the essential vibrant works of Luis Barragan, this is not that book.