Casa Pedregal

$$$ · Museum/gallery · Pedregal

THE TAKE

Barragán's first Pedregal house, the volcanic masterwork that taught Mexico how modernism could feel like home, now restored to its original colors and opened by appointment.

WHY IT’S WORTH IT

1A Luis Barragán residential masterpiece, the original Casa Prieto López and the first house built in the Jardines del Pedregal, where his architecture grows out of the lava itself

2Collector César Cervantes and architect Jorge Covarrubias led a painstaking restoration that stripped decades of additions and recovered Barragán's true wall colors through stratigraphic study

3A pilgrimage for anyone serious about 20th century architecture, visitable only by private appointment so it never feels like a tourist stop

BUSINESS INFO

Monday10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Tuesday10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Wednesday10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Thursday10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Friday10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Saturday11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Sunday10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Av. de Las Fuentes 180, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, 01900 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

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