Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz

Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz is a Mexican architect originally from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.

He studied at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, and later at Yale University, where he obtained a master's degree in 1960, working later in Italy with the architect Giovanni Michelucci.

He later lectured at the UNAM workshop five in Mexico City, led by Agustín Landa Verdugo and his brother Enrique.

In the 1970s he was director of the architecture school of the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City. Among his works are the offices of the Fundidora de Monterrey, now occupied by the Secretariat of Public Works of Nuevo Leon, and the house for the first Cultural Sowing Lottery, the reason for a monograph entitled Una Casa en Monterrey. The house reveals the influence of the Case Study Houses of California, while the offices combine the purity of Mies van der Rohe and the structural expressionism of Eero Saarinen.

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