“Architecture becomes an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.” Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín, Mexican architect and engineer.
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About his life
Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín(March 9, 1902 – November 22, 1988) was aMexican architectandengineer. In 1931, after getting a degree in civil engineering, he metBacandLe Corbusier,两人had a profound influence on his work. He began to conceive new methods by which he could create “emotional architecture,” which would encourage meditation and quietude. For his serene and evocative houses, gardens, plazas and fountains, he won thePritzker Prizein 1980.
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What are Barragán’s style main features ?
A religious man, Barragán and his work have been described as “mystical” as well as serene. His chapel for theCapuchinas Sacramentariasis an evidence of both qualities. Because of his interest in horses, he designed many stables, fountains and water troughs that manifest many of these same qualities.
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The work of Luis Barragán is often quoted in reference tominimalist architecture. Most architects who do minimalistic architecture do not use color, but the ideas of forms and spaces which Barragán pioneered are still there.
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The rooms burst with light and colour and are decorated with leather chairs and animal-skin lamps, and the attached studio frequently hosts artists in residence.
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What are his most famous creations?
The majority of the structures he built are in Guadalajara and Mexico City. Among his notable works are the house he created around existing buildings at 20–22Calle Ramírezin the Tacubaya district of Mexico City, where he lived beginning in the 1940s; numbers 10 and 12Avenida de las Fuentes, among the first houses to be built in El Pedregal, and thePrieto López Housethere; theSan Cristóbal Stables/Egerstrom House; theGálvez House; and theGilardi House.The Barragan Foundation(1996) is located near Basel, Switz.
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info source:
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/nov/04/casa-luis-barragn-mexico-city-architect
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/nov/04/casa-luis-barragn-mexico-city-architect
