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Custodial History note
Preferred Citation note
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Content note
Arrangement note
Title: Luis Barragan papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000218
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1972-1989
creator:
Georges, Alexandre
creator:
Luis Barragán, 1902-1988
creator:
Salas Portugal, Armando
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Open for use by qualified researchers.
Custodial History note
Gift of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2011.
Preferred Citation note
Luis Barragan papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Biographical/Historical note
Luis Barragan was born in 1902 in Guadaljara. Barragan studied engineering at university but was never formally trained as
an architect. He was the principal of his own firm in Mexico City, producing work only in Mexico. Luis Barragan died in 1988.
Over the course of his career, he is most well-known for his house in Mexico City and the exclusive housing development called
Jardines del Pedregal in the lava fields of El Pedregal de San Angel.
Scope and Content note
Photographs of Luis Barragan's buildings and an exhibition brochure are accompanied by a letter from Barragan to Paul Mills
at the Santa Barbara Art Museum, 1972.
Arrangement note
Collection is arranged in one series.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Luis Barragán, 1902-1988
Letters
Photographic prints