Residencia Galvez, Col.Pedregal de San Angel, Mexico City, Mexico
José Antonio Attolini Lack
Mexican, 1931–2012
1958
Gelatin silver print of José Antonio Attolini Lack’s 1958 Residencia Gálvez—an image of a low, flat‑roofed modern house conceived to dissolve the boundary between inside and outside with glass walls and extended eaves.
What first arrests the eye is the long horizontal roof plane hovering on slender supports, the rectilinear paving that channels your view through lush plantings to transparent living spaces, and the crisp black‑and‑white contrasts that make sky, shadow, and structure sing.
The photograph records Mexico’s postwar modernist domestic architecture, showing how architects adapted International Style ideas to local climate and landscape and how architectural photography helped spread those new models of suburban living.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
11 1/4 x 14" (28.5 x 35.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Carmen Pesqueira de Attolini
Accession
727.2014.1
Palette
Exhibitions
