Luis Barragán's buildings in and around Mexico City

Map of 5 locations in Mexico City, Mexico

Barragán left only a few dozen finished works, almost all of them in Mexico, and the ones reachable from Mexico City range from a World Heritage house museum to a subdivision you can only read from the street. This list follows what he actually built in and around the capital between 1945 and 1977, with the dates, the clients and the terrain each project started from, and says plainly which ones are institutions and which are still lived in.

Places in this collection

  • Torres de Satélite — Five concrete prisms between 30 and 52 metres tall, standing in the median of the boulevard at Ciudad Satélite: planning began in 1957 from…
  • Casa Prieto López — Barragán sold 15,000 square metres on a prominent corner of Jardines del Pedregal to the lawyer Eduardo Prieto López in 1946, on generous t…
  • Jardines del Pedregal — Barragán began planning this subdivision in 1945 on the lava field left by the eruption of the Xitle volcano some 2,000 years ago, bordered…
  • Casa Gilardi — Built between 1975 and 1977, this is among the last houses Barragán completed, and it is still a private residence rather than an instituti…
  • Casa Luis Barragán — The house and studio Barragán built for himself in Tacubaya, finished in 1948, and the one building where his own fittings, library and roo…

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