ABSTRACT
The unique climate of Mexico City, where the tropical location is tempered by its high mountain altitude, provides the setting for a study of one of the most remarkable houses of the twentieth century, Luis Barragán’s own house. The house is a particularly eloquent demonstration of the relationship between technics and poetics in shaping a domestic environment. Using essentially traditional means of construction, combined with an acute sensibility to the climate, Barragán created an immensely rich sequence of spaces and environments that is, as Louis Kahn declared following his visit, ‘not merely a house, but House itself.’
