Luis Barragan remains perhaps the most renown name in Mexican architecture. The Pritzer Prize recipient’s mostly residential work bursts with color, his texture invites touch, and his massing dances before viewers’ eyes. For a while he studies with Le Corbusier in Europe, and his work displays as much vibrancy tough in different measures.
While it’s been said that his aesthetic is “a sublime act of poetic imagination,” he says: “I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty.”
Enjoy more about his poetic beauty in the book The Architecture of Luis Barragan by Emilio Ambasz. The book is a compact, most visual exploration or Barragan’s work. It doesn’t overintellectualize and is an easy grasp for those new to architecture while not simplfying it too much for even the veteran architect.
Some words to associate with Barragan’s work: composition, light, sound, color, vernacular.
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