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Barragan - The Complete Works | 
 enlarge | Creators: Paul Rispa, Raul Rispa
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Category: Book
Buy Used: $90.00
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 431359
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 1568983220
Dewey Decimal Number: 720.92
EAN: 9781568983226
ASIN: 1568983220
Publication Date: April 2003
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Condition: Book has different cover art than that pictured. Book has minor shelf wear/denting along its edges, and dj has minor shelf wear and a few small tears along its edges. Pages are crisp and clean. This is a new book that received the above wear during its delivery. Has remainder mark.
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Product Description
Mexican architect Luis Barragan (1902-88) was one of the twentieth century’s most creative designers and one of its best-known architects. Self-taught, he achieved international renown for his remarkable personal artistic vision. Using vegetation, water, primary geometric forms, and vivid colors, Barragan created a poetic and painterly yet elegantly simple architectural style that transformed the Mexican building tradition into an abstract architectural language.
This revised edition of our best-selling monograph – the first comprehensive compilation of Barragan’s work (102 buildings and 12 additional projects) – contains new photographs and an updated bibliography. Its intelligent analyses and superb illustrations demonstrate the complexity and scope of this genius, as both an architect and a landscape designer.
Barragan – The Complete Works collects over 300 illustrations including Barragan’s drawings; photographs of his work; re-drawn plans, elevations, and scale models of important projects; texts by Alvaro Siza, Antonio Toca, and J. M. Buendia, as well as an essay by Barragan himself; and an unabridged transcription of his Pritzker Prize acceptance speech. this book is the essential compendium on the work of this great master architect.
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 Pleased customer March 14, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nice price and fast delivery. I could not ask for more.
Thank you very much indeed!
 Not what it could be. February 17, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For a book titled The Complete Works, this book visually falls short. Many of the pictures are smaller and in black and white - not providing enough photos to be a really valuable visual research tool.
Barragan: The Complete Works December 17, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I extolled the first edition of this definitive, splendidly illustrated survey when it appeared in 1996, and urge you to add it to your shelves if you haven't already. Luis Barragan (1902-88) was a master of earthy yet sophisticated buildings that had nothing to do with style and look better with every year that passes. This revised edition is little changed, but for an update of the bibliography and a perceptive essay by Antonio Ruiz Barbarin, from which I learned that Barragan was an almost exact contemporary of Marcel Breuer, Lucio Costa, Arne Jacobsen, and Ivan Leonidov. Truly a vintage year! (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)
be inspired May 11, 2000
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
for a sensitive humane and theatrical perception of space color and interaction of mater and living creatures is the legacy of a great muster, his buildings as elements of a living construction interact with the elements of life, viewing the composition is relaxing and inspiring.
Great photographs of works by Mexico's Greatest Architect. August 24, 1998
Luis Barragan's gift to twentieth-century architecture is inspiring. His impressive sensitivity, simplicity, and masterful use of color, was captured here for generations of architects to enjoy.
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