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Barragán Cuadra San Cristóbal

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Cuadra San Cristóbal is a stable, a house, a pool and a fountain arranged as standing planes of colour. A long pink stucco wall runs the north–south axis; a lower purple wall sits beside it; ochre rammed earth and green pasture take the ground. Nothing is applied ornament.

Built for the screen, the referent means one thing: the wall is the page. Colour is not a background to put content on, it is the content's own substance. Text is near-black or lime-wash white, layout is asymmetric, and empty pink is load-bearing.

Learn more about the Barragán Cuadra San Cristóbal style

  • OriginLos Clubes, Atizapán de Zaragoza, Estado de México
  • Period1966–1968 (Mexican modernism / arquitectura emocional)
  • DesignerLuis Barragán · Andrés Casillas · Chucho Reyes · Yutaka Saito
  • MovementsEmotional architecture · Mexican modernism · International Style

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