Corredor de la Casa Giraldi, Ciudad de México

Luis Barragan was born in 1902 in Guadalajara, Mexico. He studied civil engineering, graduating in 1924. In 1927 he restored a house in Guadalajara and a year later saw the construction of the first work entirely designed by him. The first and most essential source of his architecture comes from the evocation of his youth in the family hacienda of Corrales and the nearby villages of Mazamitla (Jalisco). He himself said: “They are the transposition to the contemporary world of that nostalgia. Since childhood I have enjoyed the popular architecture, the whitewashed walls, the joy and the peaceful charm of the patios and orchards, the colorful houses, the aqueducts, water troughs and trojes.... From all this tradition I wanted to transpose, renewing it, the beautiful way in which the problem of community life is solved in order to give the human being a dose of “flavor” that provides him with the recollection and inner life that is lacking in modern cities”...[+]