Between media influence and pedagogy in architecture: production of meaning from Luis Barragan’s Pritzker Prize acceptance speech

Abstract

This text proposes a methodology for teaching and learning the history of architecture, based on the temporal influence of certain legitimizing media as a source of interpretation of architectural languages. The resulting pedagogy is based on the immediate, the mediatic and the mediatized forms, derived from research in architectural communication that analyzes the acceptance speeches of the Pritzker Architecture Prize between 1979 and 2015 and their impact on contemporary architectural culture. It examines the architectural signs enunciated by Luis Barragán and compares them with those of other editions, crossing the information gathered with other approaches, such as that of the languages of the architectural collective imaginary in different contexts, to obtain an alternative didactic for this type of readings. The resulting non-canonical teaching methodology interweaves theories, concepts or terms that reflect the understanding of architecture at a specific time thanks to the work of certain media actors.