Barragán y su generación en Guadalajara: la casa, el patio y el jardín

This research examines the work of a group of engineering colleagues: Ignacio Díaz Morales, Rafael Urzúa, Pedro Castellanos and Luis Barragán as the leader, who between the 1920s and 1930s, proposed a transformation of the suburban house or chalet -a typology that incorpored the prevailing foreign architecture influences of that time- which they rejected. Inspired by the teachings of the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros and the works of Ferdinand Bac, they rediscovered the universal and everlasting values that united the vernacular Mediterranean architecture with that of their place. We have used a comparative study method to find the commonalities and differences between the works that we analyze. Our research demonstrates how through intermediate spaces the house merges with the exterior space, the garden acquires greater relevance as an extension of the house and finally, how tradition is linked to modernity.