Luis Barragán

Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín (Guadalajara, March 9, 1902 – Mexico City, November 22, 1988) was a Mexican architect and engineer.
He is considered one of the protagonists of his time, and the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century.
At the age of just 22, he graduated in Engineering from the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros in Guadalajara. Initially influenced by the International style, Le Corbusier and New Objectivity, he later developed his own style that reinvented the strong colors of Mexican popular architecture.
His work has visually and conceptually influenced contemporary architects. Barragán's buildings are often visited by international architecture students and professors. He studied engineering in his hometown, while taking all the additional courses to obtain the title of architect.

Barragán won the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in architecture, in 1980, and his personal home, the Luis Barragán House and Studio, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004.  ..Wikipedia…>>