The Echo Chamber: Luis Barragán and the Avant-Garde | Luis E. Carranza

The Echo Chamber: Luis Barragán and the Avant-Garde

This presentation will explore the early work and ideas of the Mexican architect Luis Barragán in relation to his travels in Europe and North America. It will explore his contact with the architectural and artistic avant-garde and how his work tried to integrate their influences and ideas into the nationalist architectural trends taking place in Mexico in the twentieth century.

About Luis. E Carranza

Luis E. Carranza is Professor at Roger Williams University, an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Visiting Professor at Yale University’s School of Architecture. He obtained his BArch from the University of Southern California and his PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Harvard University. He teaches architectural history and theory, design, and seminars on modern architecture and art in Latin America. His research and published work focus on modern architecture and art in Latin America (with an emphasis on Mexico). This work underscores how social, literary, philosophical, and theoretical ideas impact the conceptualization and materialization of architecture and design. Much of his research on these themes can be found throughout his publications such as Architecture as Revolution: Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico, Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, Utopia [with Fernando Lara], (Radical) Functionalism in Latin America, Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico, and Ephemeral Architectures and Falsified Cities: Utopian Visions for Latin America. He also serves as co-curator of the Barragán Gallery at the Vitra Design Museum.