melissa
17-09-2005, 17:24
LUIS BARRAGÁN
BIO from archinform:
Mexican, training as an engineer, thereafter journeys to Spain and France, where he discovers the books of Ferdinand Bac, a French painter and landscape architect, which he becomes acquainted with 1931 also personally. By it and by the Mauri architecture the garden becomes a place of the joy, thinking and dreaming for Barragán. Impressed of Le Corbusier and the Internationalen Stil, as well as of the simple rural architecture of its homeland, he, predominantly in his place of birth and in Mexico, builds Guadalajara D.F., in the 30's mansions and Appartmenthaeuser. By the friendship with the sculptor Mathias Goeritz originating from Danzig and with rosa ones and Miguel Covarrubias finds Barragán around 1940 to its own personal style, which resumes old traditions of its country in very modern way. 1940 Barragán four closed private gardens, 1944 three further, later to the enormous arranges rock area of the "Parque Residencial Jardines del Pedregal de San fishing rod" surrounded by walls at the edge of Mexico, D.F., to belong, whose total organization of 1945-50 lies in its hands and is then built into those luxury mansions, the theories of the Barcelona-Pavillons of Mies van the Rohe will take good heed of and effectively in the Mexican will transponieren. The own house builds Barragán 1947 in Tacubaya, Mexico, D.F., with a patio, whose walls are so high that they release only the view of the sky, with stairs without railings as architectural motive. The chapel for the Capuchinas Sacramentarias del Purísimo Corazón de Maria, Tlalpan, Mexico, D.F., fulfilled by golden light, shows Franziskani simplicity and solidarity with nature (1952-55); those farmsteads and plants for riders and breed horses, who justified Barragáns call, show in addition, the same spirit. Much intensive coloredness thought, connects themselves simple, cleaned walls out, by one impressively increased with water and vegetation to successions more lichtdurchfluteter and nevertheless in itself closed area: Arboledas (1958-61) read, lot Clubes (1963-64) and its eingangstor (1968-69), the pertinent San Cristobal (1967-68, in co-operation with Andrés Casillas). Barragán became most well-known by the 1957 in co-operation with Mathias Goeritz of developed five triangular towers at the motorway the northern satellite city of Mexico town center.
BIO from archinform:
Mexican, training as an engineer, thereafter journeys to Spain and France, where he discovers the books of Ferdinand Bac, a French painter and landscape architect, which he becomes acquainted with 1931 also personally. By it and by the Mauri architecture the garden becomes a place of the joy, thinking and dreaming for Barragán. Impressed of Le Corbusier and the Internationalen Stil, as well as of the simple rural architecture of its homeland, he, predominantly in his place of birth and in Mexico, builds Guadalajara D.F., in the 30's mansions and Appartmenthaeuser. By the friendship with the sculptor Mathias Goeritz originating from Danzig and with rosa ones and Miguel Covarrubias finds Barragán around 1940 to its own personal style, which resumes old traditions of its country in very modern way. 1940 Barragán four closed private gardens, 1944 three further, later to the enormous arranges rock area of the "Parque Residencial Jardines del Pedregal de San fishing rod" surrounded by walls at the edge of Mexico, D.F., to belong, whose total organization of 1945-50 lies in its hands and is then built into those luxury mansions, the theories of the Barcelona-Pavillons of Mies van the Rohe will take good heed of and effectively in the Mexican will transponieren. The own house builds Barragán 1947 in Tacubaya, Mexico, D.F., with a patio, whose walls are so high that they release only the view of the sky, with stairs without railings as architectural motive. The chapel for the Capuchinas Sacramentarias del Purísimo Corazón de Maria, Tlalpan, Mexico, D.F., fulfilled by golden light, shows Franziskani simplicity and solidarity with nature (1952-55); those farmsteads and plants for riders and breed horses, who justified Barragáns call, show in addition, the same spirit. Much intensive coloredness thought, connects themselves simple, cleaned walls out, by one impressively increased with water and vegetation to successions more lichtdurchfluteter and nevertheless in itself closed area: Arboledas (1958-61) read, lot Clubes (1963-64) and its eingangstor (1968-69), the pertinent San Cristobal (1967-68, in co-operation with Andrés Casillas). Barragán became most well-known by the 1957 in co-operation with Mathias Goeritz of developed five triangular towers at the motorway the northern satellite city of Mexico town center.