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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.

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

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

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

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

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.