RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Luis Barragán: The Process of Discovery
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 99
OP 112
DO 10.3368/lj.15.2.99
VO 15
IS 2
A1 Ignacio San Martin
YR 1996
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/15/2/99.abstract
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.