LUCIA SANTA ANA
Full-time Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture. UNAM. Area of study: Compared Europe-American-Mexican Contemporary Architectural History, History of Construction in Mexico, Architecture for Education.
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In this paper we are going to analyze the work of two architects from the first generation: Ricardo Legorreta and Antonio Attolini Lack.
The firs one is well known outside of Mexico, he has developed lot of buildings all around the world. Considered as the first heir of Barragán he takes elements like walls, color, light, water and courtyards; but he started to transform this elements. He transform the small scale from the architecture of Barragán into a larger scale with out loosing the sense of it., creating industrial buildings in which he shows that this kind of buildings doesn’t have to be just a box. Instead he create buildings that are well composed and also are comfortable for the workers that live there most part of the day. He started to introduce new elements into the vocabulary like vaults and domes, in relation with building materials Legorreta started to increase the repertoire using marble, mosaic, concrete, plastic tiles. The water started to take other connotation, the fountains take movement resembling waves.
On the other side Antonio Attolini Lack is hardly known even in Mexico, but his work is of great quality, he worked with Barragán in a not built project. His buildings are from different kinds; houses, churches, small offices buildings and art supply stores. In his work we can read the influence of Barragán primarily in his houses, he uses elements like water, natural light, color and vegetation, but also introduce new elements and forms in his work, for instance he uses exposed concrete, roof tiles, sloping roofs and bricks.
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In this paper we are going to analyze the work of two architects from the first generation: Ricardo Legorreta and Antonio Attolini Lack.
The firs one is well known outside of Mexico, he has developed lot of buildings all around the world. Considered as the first heir of Barragán he takes elements like walls, color, light, water and courtyards; but he started to transform this elements. He transform the small scale from the architecture of Barragán into a larger scale with out loosing the sense of it., creating industrial buildings in which he shows that this kind of buildings doesn’t have to be just a box. Instead he create buildings that are well composed and also are comfortable for the workers that live there most part of the day. He started to introduce new elements into the vocabulary like vaults and domes, in relation with building materials Legorreta started to increase the repertoire using marble, mosaic, concrete, plastic tiles. The water started to take other connotation, the fountains take movement resembling waves.
On the other side Antonio Attolini Lack is hardly known even in Mexico, but his work is of great quality, he worked with Barragán in a not built project. His buildings are from different kinds; houses, churches, small offices buildings and art supply stores. In his work we can read the influence of Barragán primarily in his houses, he uses elements like water, natural light, color and vegetation, but also introduce new elements and forms in his work, for instance he uses exposed concrete, roof tiles, sloping roofs and bricks.