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Réf.

41567

Type

conference item

Titre

Luis Barragán's architecture : return to the origins

Langues

English

Auteurs

Arenal, Monica del / Alcala, Horacio / Godard, Nicolás

Date

2008

Pages

9 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

contemporary architecture / modern architecture / architects / architectural styles / building materials / building techniques / biographies

Personnalités

Barragán, Luis (architect, 1902-1988)

Résumé en anglais

Luis Barragán, an icon of contemporary architecture, received the Pritzker Prize in 1980. His work is considered ‘as a sublime act of poetic imagination’. Barragán used to reflect about the vanishing of the words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement in architecture publications, and said that: ‘All these words have nestle din my soul, and though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.’ Nowadays several works of the architect are in franc abandonment, decay or limited accessibility. His work has plenty of references on traditional Mexican architecture, made with local and humble materials and comprises a depurated fusion of the conception of space from the Maghreb and Andalusia region. His intellectual influences and inspiring travels are the clue towards the comprehension and adequate transmission of the relevance of his work. What are we doing in order to spread his legacy?

Document joint

79-dgVG-13.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)