Luis Barragan Quotes About Architecture

• My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

  Luis Barragan

  Emotional, House, Pieces

• I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

  Luis Barragan

  Gardening, Landscape, Architecture

• Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

  Luis Barragan

  Badass, Mistake, Bad Ass

  "Cowboy builder" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2001.

• Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

  Luis Barragan

  Motivational, Art, Atmosphere

• Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

  Luis Barragan

  Men, Solitude, May

• I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. 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.

  Luis Barragan

  Inspiration, Light, Justice

• All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.

  Luis Barragan

  Spiritual, Wall, Mistake

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin