In NOWNESS’s most recent feature for the series “In Residence” — a collection of intimate visits into the homes of architects, designers and artists — videographer César Pesquera turns his lens to Casa Gilardi, a Mexico City home built by the celebrated architect Luis Barragan and which perfectly exemplifies the aesthetic he developed through his entire life and career. In the film dedicated to the memory of his good friend Pancho Gilardi, after whom the house is now named, Martin Luque tells the story of the architecture by taking the camera through the rooms and into every corner of Casa Gilardi, the last house entirely designed by Barragan. Having difficulties viewing on mobile? Click here. Pancho Gilardi and Martin Luque, the co-owners of an advertising agency in Mexico City, were great admirers of Barragan’s walls and colors. While Barragan was already retired at the time that Gilardi and Luque approached him to build the house, he was awe-struck with the presence of a great jacaranda tree at the heart of the site, immediately attracted to a project that would respond to this central element and grow around it. “The tree was a good excuse for him ... , Chloé Vadot, read more Architizer http://ift.tt/2dSai0p
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