Built in 1948, the House and Stu­dio of archi­tect Luis Bar­ra­gan in the sub­urbs of Mex­i­co City rep­re­sents an out­stand­ing exam­ple of the architect‘s cre­ative work in the post-Sec­ond World War peri­od. The con­crete build­ing, totalling 1,161 m², con­sists of a ground floor and two upper storeys, as well as a small pri­vate gar­den. Barragan‘s work inte­grat­ed mod­ern and tra­di­tion­al artis­tic and ver­nac­u­lar cur­rents and ele­ments into a new syn­the­sis, which has been great­ly influ­en­tial, espe­cial­ly in the con­tem­po­rary design of gar­dens, plazas and land­scapes.