|Question 5Verbal

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Mexican architect Luis Barragán's prolific career, which spanned the 1920s to the 1980s, evolved through distinct phases. As epitomized by the Aguilar House in Guadalajara, many of Barragán's first projects integrated traditional Mexican building techniques into Mediterranean designs. Extensive travels abroad later sparked an engagement with modernist and functionalist aesthetics styles whose emphasis on utility and whose repudiation of traditional architecture's more ornamental elements are readily apparent in Barragán's house in Calle Guadiana.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
It presents biographical information that accounts for the transition in Barragán's career that is discussed in the text.
A
It notes why the two architectural projects described in the text constitute major departures from Barragán's typical style.
B
It lends support to an argument about the Mediterranean design aesthetic that is made in the previous sentence.
C
It explains why the architectural project discussed later in the sentence was highly regarded by Barragán's contemporaries.
D