PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ignacio San Martin
TI  - Luis Barragán: The Process of Discovery
AID  - 10.3368/lj.15.2.99
DP  - 1996 Sep 21
TA  - Landscape Journal
PG  - 99--112
VI  - 15
IP  - 2
4099  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/15/2/99.short
4100  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/15/2/99.full
AB  - Luis Barragán was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1980, as recognition for his work “as a sublime act of poetic imagination.” Barragán's career spanned over 50 years in search of an autogenous architecture that rejected the three prevalent canons of architecture: neoclassicism, eclecticism, and international modernism. His constructed work is, in essence, anti-academic and a testimony of a sedulous dedication towards the pursuit of an existential architecture free from rational and theoretical rules to express “time,” “place,” and “sensation.” This paper is the result of a series of interviews with five architects who formed the core of Barragán's studio from 1945 to 1968. It examines Barragán's thinking and design process and reflects on the significance of his work to the environmental design disciplines.