Mexican architect (1902-1988)
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
LUIS BARRAGÁN
attributed, The Complete Guide to Building Your Own Greenhouse
A fountain brings us peace, joy and restful sensuality and reaches the epitome of its very essence when by its power to bewitch it will stir dreams of distant worlds.
LUIS BARRAGÁN
acceptance speech for Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1980
Serenity is the great and true antidote against anguish and fear, and today, more than ever, it is the architect's duty to make of it a permanent guest in the home, no matter how sumptuous or how humble.
LUIS BARRAGÁN
acceptance speech for Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1980
The wall is an architectural striptease.
LUIS BARRAGÁN
attributed, Architect: The Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own Words
The certainty of death is the spring of action and therefore of life, and in the implicit religious element in the work of art, life triumphs over death.
LUIS BARRAGÁN
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