Luis Barragán House and Studio
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How it came to be
The Luis Barragán House and Studio stands near the old centre of Tacubaya in western Mexico City and was the home of the architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988). Born in Guadalajara, Barragán took a degree in civil engineering in 1925 and moved to Mexico City in 1936, where he worked in property development and architecture.
The house was first designed in 1947 for another client, but in 1948 Barragán decided to move in himself, and he lived there until his death in 1988. Over those years he altered it many times, using it as a laboratory for his ideas. UNESCO describes a concrete building of 1,161 m2 with a ground floor, two upper storeys and a small private garden.
Its street walls are high and plain with few windows, while the interior opens onto the garden and is arranged so that daylight makes artificial light almost unnecessary. In 1993 the government of Jalisco and the Barragán foundation acquired the house, which became a museum in 1994. It was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004.
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