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# Jardines del Pedregal

Luis Barragán · [Mexico City](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/cities/mexico-city)

Jardines del Pedregal proposed a new way of expanding Mexico City without erasing the landscape it occupied. Developed through the master-planning phase of 1945–50, with Barragán's work on the wider development continuing into 1952, it treated the lava fields not as empty land waiting to be developed, but as the defining material of the district. Carlos Contreras Elizondo collaborated as urban planner.

Roads, gardens, walls, public elements and houses were planned around the volcanic terrain rather than independently of it. Casa Estudio Max Cetto, Casa Prieto López and the Casas Muestra show how that idea shaped domestic architecture, while Animal del Pedregal at Plaza de las Fuentes extends it into public space. Although much of the original vision has since been altered, the project remains central to understanding how Barragán translated his ideas from the private garden to the scale of an entire neighbourhood.

## Related

- [Casa Estudio Max Cetto](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/casa-estudio-max-cetto) — One of the first houses to show how a modern dwelling could be set into the lava field
- [Casa Prieto López](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/casa-prieto-lopez) — One of the clearest domestic expressions of the Pedregal landscape
- [Casas Muestra de Jardines del Pedregal](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/casas-muestra-de-jardines-del-pedregal) — Barragán and Cetto's show houses, made to communicate the development's original vision
- [Animal del Pedregal](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/animal-del-pedregal) — A public sculpture at Plaza de las Fuentes that announced the development beyond its private houses
- [Las Arboledas](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/las-arboledas) — Barragán's later attempt to define another residential district through landscape and public space