I have been looking for inspiration. I need to learn how to use light as well as water for a project set in Arizona. I need look no further than Luis Barragan. He is one of the foremost architects of Mexico and a winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1980. His work has been called minimalist, but is nonetheless full of colour and texture. Pure planes of stucco, adobe, timber and water, compose the elements, which interact with the surrounding environment.
Barragan called himself a landscape architect. "I believe that architects should design gardens to be used as much as the house that they build, to develop a sense of beauty and taste and an inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values. Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake."
He is noted for remarking on the importance of religion and myth, beauty, silence, solitude, joy, death and gardens.
Luis Barragan 1902-1988
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Great pictures. I'm always amazed at how that deep rust color (from the structure in that first picture) looks so gorgeous against the blue skies in the SW...
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