Quotes & anectdotes from
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Luis Barragan Architect

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Mexico
  • Born: Mar 9, 1902
  • Died: Nov 22, 1988

Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín was a Mexican architect. He studied as an engineer in his home town, while undertaking the entirety of additional coursework to obtain the title of architect.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

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

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

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.