LUIS BARRAGAN
GA [GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE] 48

Emilio Ambasz and Yukio Futagawa

Emilio Ambasz (text); Yukio Futagawa (editor and photographer): GA [GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE] 48: LUIS BARRAGAN [Barragán House, Tacubaya, Mexico City, 1947; Los Clubes, suburb of Mexico City, 1963-69; San Cristobal, suburb of Mexico City, 1967-68 (with the collaboration of arch. Andrés Casillas)]. Tokyo: A. D. A . Edita, 1979. First edition. Text in English and Japanese. A fine softcover magazine in stiff, french-folded wrappers. Former owners name on FEP, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print and uncommon.

10.25 x 14.25 perfect-bound softcover magazine with 48 pages of full-page color and b/w plates, shot specifically for GA by Yukio Futagawa. Insightful Essay by Emilio Ambasz ³House & Atelier for Luis Barragán and San Cristobal,²and excellent photography by Futagawa make this an extraordinarily nice tribute to several of the iconic residences of the 20th century.

Luis Barragan is one of the most singular architects of the twentieth century. Winner of, among other awards, the Pritzker Prize in 1980 and the Premio America in 1987, he was launched to international fame by the exhibition of his work staged by New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1976. Barragan: The Complete Works covers, for the first time, his complete oeuvre - 119 documented works and projects (dating from 1927 to 1981)- as architect and landscape architect. Beautiful geometric forms, sensual colours, surreal abstract landscapes - perhaps no other architect in the 20th century has been able to fuse elements of Mexican vernacular architecture, the International Style, and pre-industrial materials more exquisitely than Barragan. Artfully combining traditional styles and local colours with the controlled use of pools and the subtropical landscape of Mexico, he has forged an architecture at once unique and instantly recognisable.

"Barragan's magnificent gardens and carefully constructed plazas seem to stand either as great architectural stages for the promenade of horses or as echo chambers for the constant cascade of water. While his design approach is classical and atemporal, the elements of his architecture are deeply rooted in his country's cultural and religious traditions; through the haunting beauty of his heiratic constructions we may begin to understand the ardor and intensity of Mexico's architecture."

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