Barragan: Armando Salas Portugal photographs of the architecture of Luis Barragan

Large format purple linen covered boards with dust jacket. Features around 150 pages of great black & white and color photos by Armando Salas, Barragan's official photographer. Boards and pages are clean, crisp, and like-new. Dust jacket has very minor edge wear and two shallow scratches on the back. Spine of dust jacket is also sunned/faded. Very good ++ condition overall. From the dust jacket flap : This monograph documents all of Barragán's important commissions, most of which are located in and around Mexico City, including El Pedregal, a landscaping and residential development built on 865 acres of lava desert which Barragán bought in 1944; the Towers of Satellite City (with Mathias Goeritz); San Cristobal stable, pools, and house; the Gilardi house; the Barragán house; and the residential subdivision Las Arboledas. Among other awards, Barragán won the coveted Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1979. Contributions by Ernest H. Brooks II, Ignacio Diaz Morales, Ricardo Legorreta