Luis Barragan's Gardens of El Pedregal
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Mexican architect Luis Barragan’s 1,250-acre residential subdivision, Jardins del Pedregal, was begun in 1945 on the lava fields of south of Mexico City and was dotted with houses and plazas, fountains and ponds, cacti and pepper trees. Barragan considered El Pedregal his most important project, and critics have described the houses and gardens there as a turning point in Mexican architecture. This book examines El Pedregal's program and form, its representation in architect-commissioned photographs and advertising, and its place within contemporary discourses on cultural identity, design and place, and suburbanization. Keith Eggener offers an in-depth analysis of this now mostly destroyed project through original documents, drawings, color and black-and-white photography, and critical examinations of the design process.
Item #902212ISBN: 1568982674
7-3/4 x 11-1/4", pictorial boards, orange endpapers, xiii, 161pp, appendices, select bibliography, notees, index, fully illustrated.
Fine in lightly rubbed dust wrapper with a bit of mild crimplng to edges, in protective mylar.
Price: $100.00