Luis Barragán and Juan Sordo Madaleno: The master plan for Lomas Verdes
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Mexico, urban planning, 1960s, New TownsAbstract
The master plan for Lomas Verdes (1965-1967) of Luis Barragán Morfín (19021988) and Juan Sordo Madaleno (1916-1985) was a residential development for 100,000 inhabitants in the north-east of the city of Mexico. It is little known because it was partially executed and only a few publications dealt with it. Nevertheless, it was a meaningful project in the careers of two of the most influential twentieth-century Mexican architects. Its outset, development and partial completion took place in the Everlasting Sixties. Hence, Lomas Verdes accurately reflects the social, political and economic unrest of that time. Thus, it becomes an essential contribution to the understanding of the 1960s Mexican architectural urban history. The following essay presents a critical reconstruction of the project based on archival material and secondary sources. The aims of this analysis are, on one hand, to understand the crucial position of Luis Barragán and Juan Sordo Madaleno within the Mexican architectural debate; on the other, to specify their dialectical contribution regarding the urban problems that were affecting Mexico City in those years.
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