Böcker av Fernanda Canales

This publication is based on an illustrated talk presented by architect and historian Fernanda Canales in June 2024 at the Vitra Design Museum, as part of the Barragán Lec-ture series. It focuses on the Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), whose work occupies a permanent place in the canon of twentieth-century architecture and continues to fas-cinate architectural scholars, connoisseurs and enthusiasts. In her lecture, Fernanda Canales deftly interwove Barragán's biography with his major built works, which are characterised by a skilful approach to spatial and chromatic atmospheres and environments. Following the traces found in his extensive private library, his travels, the exhibitions he saw and his per-sonal and professional friendships, she took the audience on a multifaceted journey through space and time, providing a concentrated overview of Barragán's creative work from the late 1920s to the 1980s.

The award-winning Mexican architect analyses two centuries of evolution of the built element with the greatest impact on the planet: the house. Including 110 coloured illustrations.In this study, Fernanda Canales analyses the evolution of the house over the last two centuries through projects, exhibitions, and books. My House, Your City expands the meaning of "house" by dismantling three erroneous assumptions - the house as a place of rest separate from work, the house as an object of private property and the house as a sanctuary for the nuclear family - in favour of other formats of belonging, coexistence and use.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Arquitectura en Maexico 1900-2010: La Construcciaon de la Modernidad: Obras, Diseano, Arte y Pensamiento [Architecture in Mexico 19002010: The Construction of Modernity: Works, Design, Art, and Thought]," held December 2013 to June 2014 at the Museo Antiguo Palacio de Iturbide in Mexico City.