{"id":26810,"date":"2025-03-02T09:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T09:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26810"},"modified":"2025-03-02T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T09:25:45","slug":"media-architecture-luis-barragan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26810","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA\/ARCHiTECTURE: Luis Barragan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Casa Barragan, roof terrace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Barragan. Liked horses!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wow! We\u2019re watching Monty Don\u2019s Around The World In 80 Gardens<\/em>, again. He\u2019s in Mexico, and he starts in the brutally but beautifully modernist settings of three Luis Barragan buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love old traditional – conservative, even (note small \u2018c\u2019!) – art and architecture. And old grand homes. A lot of this kind of modernism leaves me cold. But this stuff? It blows my mind. And I think I mean that in the fellatio<\/em> sense\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The use of colour and water, and the attention to small details, as well as the huge slabs of colour\u2026 breathtaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brilliant!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Awesome steps\/door!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Interesting\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Truly astonishing stuff. And, despite the intellectualism and grandeur, very – to me at least – warmly human. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The use of the hot oranges and pinks\u2026 it is soooo divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are those monumental pillars real? And look at the guy\u2026 he took himself seriously, bless him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Barragan\u2019s famous lectern\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The architect had the large lectern you can see above, as a place where he\u2019d display inspirational images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gaah!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, Los Pazos, by Edward James? Well, that\u2019s for another post\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow! We\u2019re watching Monty Don\u2019s Around The World In 80 Gardens, again. He\u2019s in Mexico, and he starts in the brutally but beautifully modernist settings of three Luis Barragan buildings. I love old traditional – conservative, even (note small \u2018c\u2019!) – art and architecture. And old grand homes. A lot of this kind of modernism … <\/p>\n

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