Main entry:

Eggener, Keith, author.

Title & Author:

Luis Barragán's gardens of El Pedregal / Keith Eggener ; foreword by Marc Treib.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2001]

Description:

xiii, 161 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-143) and index.
Machine generated contents note: VII ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- IX FOREWORD -- MARC TREIB -- INTRODUCTION -- 6 BUILT ARCHITECTURE -- BARRAGAN BEFORE EL PEDREGAL APPROACHING THE SITE EARLY PLANNING -- EFFORTS AND THE PEDREGAL BUILDING CODE * STREETS AND SUBDIVISION * WALLS -- PUBLIC GARDENS AND PLAZAS THE CETTOIAND PRIETO LOPEZ HOUSES THE -- FUENTES DEMONSTRATION HOUSES MONEY MATTERS EL PEDREGAL AFTER -- BARRAGAN -- 62 PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE -- VISIBLE CITY * BARRAGAN AND PHOTOGRAPHY BEFORE EL PEDREGAL FRAMING -- THE FIELD * STILLNESS AND SURREALISM ADVERTISING THE IDEAL FASHION AND -- SCENOGRAPHY THE LANDSCAPE OF MEMORY -- 94 THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE -- CULTURE AND CONSTRUCTION * NATION BUILDING * THE REGIONAL APPROACH -- EL PEDREGAL'S NEIGHBOR: THE UNIVERSITY CITY THE LANDSCAPE OF NATIONALISM -- THE INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE ARCADIA AND INTEGRATION THE FUNCTIONAL -- GARDEN * MODERNISM MADE MEXICAN -- 126 AFTERWORD: THE LANDSCAPE OF FORTUNE -- THE BOURGEOIS UTOPIA * THE MEXICAN GARDEN.

Summary:

"The name Luis Barragan evokes images of Latin American modernism - brightly colored plain surfaces set off against lush foliage, subtly resonant of local form and culture. Barragan's 1,250-acre Gardens of El Pedregal subdivision, begun in 1945 on the lava fields south of Mexico City, were dotted with houses and plazas, fountains and ponds, cacti and pepper trees. He considered El Pedregal his most important project, and critics have described the houses and gardens there as a turning point in Mexican modern 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. It offers an in-depth analysis of this project through original documents, drawings, photographs, and critical examinations of the design and marketing processes."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568982674
hardback
9781568982670

Subject:

Barragán, Luis, 1902-1988 Criticism and interpretation.
Barragán, Luis, 1902-
Barragán, Luis, 1902-1988 Critique et interprétation.
Barragán, Luis, 1902-1988
Barragán, Luis 1902-1988
Barragán, Luis.
Architecture, Domestic Mexico Mexico City.
Landscape architecture Mexico Mexico City.
Architecture domestique Mexique Mexico.
Architecture du paysage Mexique Mexico.
Architecture, Domestic.
Landscape architecture.
Gartengestaltung
Landschaftsgestaltung
ARQUITETURA MODERNA Século 20 MÉXICO.
CASAS.
ARQUITETURA PAISAGÍSTICA.
Architects Mexico 20th century.
Mexico Mexico City.
Mexiko

Form/genre:

El Pedregal.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217044
Call No.: NA44.B268.25 J3 2001
Status: Available