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Luis Barragán Quotes

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosph...

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I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

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Luis Barragán

Architect

Born: 1902-03-09

Died: 1988-11-22

Luis Barragán (Guadalajara, March 9, 1902 - Mexico City, November 22, 1988) is considered the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century. He created an architectural style that combined modernism with the colonial and prehispanic architecture of Mexico. In 1980, he became the second winner of the Pritzker Prize. His house and studio, built in 1948 in Mexico City, was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004.More