Ed Clark for Life Magazine, 1944
Mexico City Mansion surrounded by a high gate.
Why should architecture be only for use? Why not for pleasure?…The sense of mystery is important for life, for everyday living, just as it is for love. The sense of discovery, of adventure, promotes life. Only primitives, or very cultivated people are concerned with beauty. The masses, with their middle-class minds, don’t want beauty; they want comfort, order, security, likeness…The good architect must counter all this.
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Luis Barragán quoted in Selden Rodman’s Mexican Journal: The Conqueror’s Conquered, 1958.
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Torres de Satélite become bookshelves
(via mananarama)
Visually striking and informative site focused on the history and culture of Ciudad Satélite.