“Barragán’s work…drew on the forms of both foreign ‘conqueror’ and native ‘conquered’: the post-Conquest religious buildings of a despised European oppressor, and the humble vernacular of the defeated pueblos.  Unlike [Juan] O’Gorman, Barragan did not deny or revile the Spanish element in Mexican culture.  He frankly reveled in it, proudly declaring his Moorish lineage and his devout Roman Catholicism.”

-Keith Eggener, “Barragan’s El Pedregal”