This course looks at the work of the Mexican architect Luis Barragán focusing, principally, on his early works in Guadalajara and Mexico City. It aims to contextualize it within the broader architectural explorations occurring in Mexico at the time and in reaction and relation to architectural developments in the US and Europe. The intention is to closely study the work’s theoretical and historical underpinnings, their architectural character and formal innovations, and the context of their production. The investigations will result in written documents, models, drawings, etc. that will form part of an exhibition of this work at the Barragán Gallery at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. The class, as a result, will be in contact with the Barragán Foundation and archive and be partially responsible for helping organize the exhibition layout and curate the material to be presented.