Museum of the Architect Luis Barragán

 Por Dorothy Tanck de Estrada

In Mexico City there are many impressive and beautiful museums and monuments, such as, the Anthropolology Museum, the Cathedral, and the Templo Mayor. One of the least known museums is the Home-Studio of the Architect Luis Barragan Morfin, builder of the Satelite Towers, north of Mexico City, of beautiful homes with reflecting pools and vivid colors. In 1980, he wan the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

The Museum was his home during the last 30 years of his life. Surprisingly, is not in a rich part of the city, but tucked in the narrow streets of a lower middle class neighborhood. Originally, the site was in semi-vacant land. Barragan brought his garden into his living room, scattered religious images in many rooms, included bright colors in furniture and what most impressed me was the narrow very long and high wooden staircase, without a banister which graced his study.