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Constructed between 1947 and 1950 on a lava field in the south of Mexico City, Casa Pedregal, originally the Casa Prieto Lopez, is the largest private residence designed by the architect Luis Barragan and the first house built in the pioneering Jardines del Pedregal development that he conceived. Barragan laid out the whole quarter on the rugged volcanic terrain left by an ancient eruption, aiming to create a modern way of living that worked with the dark, iron-hard rock rather than against it, ...