August 2011
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April 2010
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“Why should architecture be only for use? Why not for pleasure?…The sense...”
– Luis Barragán quoted in Selden Rodman’s Mexican Journal: The Conqueror’s Conquered, 1958.
February 2010
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:.:.:.:.Satelín Torres .:.:.:.: →
Visually striking and informative site focused on the history and culture of Ciudad Satélite.
December 2009
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mañanarama: mexican modern archicheese →
November 2009
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“Nostalgia convinces the viewer because the actual events of the past have been...”
– Norman M. Klein, The History of Forgetting (via mananarama)
October 2009
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September 2009
5 posts
“the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”
– j.g. ballard (r.i.p) (via mananarama)
August 2009
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“Fountains. A fountain brings us peace, joy and restful sensuality and reaches...”
– Luis Barragán, 1980 Pritzker Prize Acceptance Speech
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“[Nostalgia] defuses what could be a powerful panic-prone reactivity to jarring...”
– Fred Davis, Yearning for Yesterday: The Sociology of Nostalgia (New York: The Free Press, 1979), 110.
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The Mexican Aristocracy by Nutini →
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“Taken as a sequence of events, these [subdivisions] represent a city shifting...”
– Keith Eggener, “Settings for History and Oblivion in Modern Mexico: 1942-1958” in Cruelty & Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003), 228.
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The Barragán Foundation →
The site of Barragán’s archives, located in Switzerland.
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Barragán and Post-colonialism
“Barragán’s work…drew on the forms of both foreign ‘conqueror’ and native ‘conquered’: the post-Conquest religious buildings of a despised European oppressor, and the humble vernacular of the defeated pueblos. Unlike [Juan] O’Gorman, Barragan did not deny or revile the Spanish element in Mexican culture. He frankly reveled in it, proudly declaring...
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“In a beautiful garden, the majesty of nature is ever present, but nature reduced...”
– Luis Barragán Pritzker Prize Acceptance Speech
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“Nostalgia is the poetic awareness of our personal past, and since the...”
– Luis Barragán, Pritzker Prize Acceptance Speech