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41567
Type
conference item
Titre
Luis Barragan's Architecture: return to the origins
Langues
English
Auteurs
Arenal, Monica del / Alcala, Horacio / Godard, Nicolás
Date
2008
Pagination de section
1-9
Titre de conférence
16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’
Lieu de conférence
Quebec, Canada
Date de conférence
29 sept – 4 oct 2008
Mots-clés
contemporary architecture / modern architecture / architects / architectural styles / building materials / building techniques / biographies
Personnalités
Barragan, Luis
Résumé en anglais
Luis Barragán, an icon of contemporaryarchitecture, received the Pritzker Prize in 1980. His
work is considered ‘as a sublime act of poeticimagination’.
Barragán used to reflect about the vanishing of thewords 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 nestledin my soul, and though I am fully aware that I have not
done them complete justice in my work, they have neverceased to be my guiding lights.’
Nowadays several works of the architect are in francabandonment, decay or limited accessibility.
His work has plenty of references on traditional Mexicanarchitecture, made with local and humble materials and
comprises a depurated fusion of the conception of spacefrom The Maghreb and Andalusia region. His
intellectual influences and inspiring travels are the cluetowards the comprehension and adequate transmission
of the relevance of his work.What are we doing in order to spread his legacy?
work is considered ‘as a sublime act of poeticimagination’.
Barragán used to reflect about the vanishing of thewords 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 nestledin my soul, and though I am fully aware that I have not
done them complete justice in my work, they have neverceased to be my guiding lights.’
Nowadays several works of the architect are in francabandonment, decay or limited accessibility.
His work has plenty of references on traditional Mexicanarchitecture, made with local and humble materials and
comprises a depurated fusion of the conception of spacefrom The Maghreb and Andalusia region. His
intellectual influences and inspiring travels are the cluetowards the comprehension and adequate transmission
of the relevance of his work.What are we doing in order to spread his legacy?
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