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Luis Barragán

Mexico1902–1988

Pritzker Prize (1980)

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Colour, silence, and the courtyard

Born in Guadalajara in 1902. Trained in engineering before turning fully to architecture. His Mexico City house and studio (1948) shows a quiet modernism of thick coloured walls, courts, water, and light. Pritzker Prize in 1980. Died in 1988.

Life and architecture

Born in Guadalajara in 1902, Barragán shaped a modernism of coloured walls and courts in his Mexico City house and studio—Pritzker Prize in 1980, and UNESCO World Heritage.

  1. 1902

    Born in Guadalajara

    Born in Guadalajara.

  2. 1948
    46

    House and studio

    Completes his house and studio in Tacubaya, Mexico City.

  3. 1980
    78

    Pritzker Prize

    Receives the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

  4. 1988
    86

    Dies in Mexico City

    Dies in Mexico City.

Ages are approximate, based on birth year.

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