Barragán: His Library

Category: Collections, Photography, Coming soon

€65.00

Author: Luis Barragán

Co-published Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán, Casa Luis Barragán and RM
Texts: David Jiménez, Alfonso Alfaro, Jorge Esquinca, Sarah Alexandra Obregón Davis
Design: José Luis Lugo
Binding: Clothbound hardback
Pages: 192 + 8 pages insert
Images: 94
Dimensions: 23 x 32.5 cm
Language: English and Spanish edition
Publication Date: September 2026

This book offers an intimate exploration of the creative universe of Luis Barragán through the lens of his personal library, housed in his home-studio in Mexico City, now the Casa Luis Barragán Museum. It reveals the inner life of Mexico’s most influential architect and 1980 Pritzker Prize laureate by tracing the books, authors, and ideas that shaped his vision.

His library emerges here as a living archive—one that reflects his deep engagement with art, spirituality, landscape, and modernity. Moving through this space is to enter a world governed by silence, solitude, and serenity: essential values that permeate both his architecture and his way of life.

The publication is enriched by a visual essay by acclaimed photographer David Jiménez, whose images capture the subtle interplay of light and shadow, intimacy and stillness, revealing the quiet beauty of the spaces where Barragán fused traditional Mexican architecture with international modernism