How Luis Barragán Used Light to Make Us See Color
In Luis Barragán’s poetic imagination color plays as significant a role as dimension or space. But how is such vibrancy heightened by the architecture itself?
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In Luis Barragán’s poetic imagination color plays as significant a role as dimension or space. But how is such vibrancy heightened by the architecture itself?
© César Béjar Text description provided by the architects. Aranguren house (1937), is one of the most representative works of the style locally called "regionalist", which had its main inspiration in the work "Enchanted Gardens" by Ferdinand Bac and was characterized by integrating in his gardens architectural elements of the Mediterranean, as well as materials, construction systems and local trades such as adobe walls, lime plating, carpentry, blacksmiths, vitrified clay among others. © César Béjar Luis Barragán, on his trip to Europe in 1924 gets to know Bac’s work, which, as a cou...