The Houses of Guadalajara: Ghosts of Modernity

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Management number 231471782 Release Date 2026/06/18 List Price US$18.20 Model Number 231471782
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(English / Spanish edition)This book studies the origins and late evolution of modern Mexican architecture through a series of houses built by two generations of architects during the 1920s and 1980s in Guadalajara. In so doing, it proposes an alternative history of Mexican architecture—positioning Guadalajara as a counterpoint to Mexico City, and putting forward a series of works and ideas that suggest a new relationship between innovation and tradition.This is also, inevitably, a book about Luis Barragán and the long shadow he cast over Mexican architecture. It explores his early and little-known work as part of a generation of architect–engineers known as the Escuela Tapatía (the Guadalajara School), which in the 1920s developed an abstract and stylized reinterpretation of the regional architecture of Jalisco. Even less well known is the generation of architects who began their careers in Guadalajara in the early 1980s. This group took the work of Barragán and his colleagues from the 1920s as the starting point for its own production, resulting in an “echo of an echo”—a reinterpretation through time of an increasingly distant and abstracted original.• Between tradition and abstraction: the architectural legacy of Pritzker Prize winner Luis Barragán in Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s• Featuring illustrative project profiles and critical texts• With numerous new photos and drawingsEste libro estudia los orígenes y la evolución tardía de la arquitectura moderna mexicana a través de una serie de casas construidas por dos generaciones de arquitectos durante las décadas de 1920 y 1980 en Guadalajara. De esta forma, se propone una historia alternativa de la arquitectura mexicana, situando a Guadalajara como contrapunto a la Ciudad de México y presentando diversas obras e ideas que sugieren una nueva relación entre innovación y tradición. Este es también, inevitablemente, un libro sobre Luis Barragán y la larga sombra que su figura proyecta sobre la arquitectura mexicana. La publicación explora su obra temprana, poco conocida, realizada como parte de una generación de arquitectos–ingenieros conocida como la Escuela Tapatía, que en la década de 1920 desarrolló una reinterpretación abstracta y estilizada de la arquitectura regional de Jalisco. Aún menos conocida es la generación de arquitectos que iniciaron su carrera en Guadalajara a principios de la década de 1980. Este grupo tomó el trabajo de Barragán y sus colegas de los años veinte como punto de partida para su propia producción, dando lugar a un «eco de un eco»: una reinterpretación a lo largo del tiempo de un original cada vez más distante y abstraído. Read more

ISBN10 3035629927
ISBN13 978-3035629927
Edition 1st
Language English
Publisher Birkhäuser
Dimensions 9.06 x 2 x 11.02 inches
Item Weight 2.16 pounds
Print length 176 pages
Publication date May 29, 2026

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