Contemporary architecture has suffered a great loss with the death of Luis Barragán on November 22, 1988, in Mexico City. This valuable architect, born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on March 9, 1902, a pioneer of the regionalist movement, has bequeathed to the world, in his eighty-six years of life, an architectural production of great spiritual content and an unforgettable lesson in sensitivity and poetry. Recently his work has taken on an almost mythical importance, despite the small number of his achievements. This has been due both to the influence of his work on the new generations and to the recognition of his originality and quality through, above all, the exhibition held at the MoMA in New York in 1976 and the awarding of the Pritzker Prize in 1980...[+]