The Air Is Blue: Insights on Art & Architecture: Luis Barragan Revisted

by Obrist, Hans Ulrich

• ISBN13: 9781933045597
• ISBN10: 1933045590
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

When architect Luis Barragan (1902-1988) won the Pritzker Prize in 1980, he marveled that "publications devoted to architecture have banished from their pages the words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement . though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights." Barragan's aesthetic makes him colossally relevant in an art world rediscovering beauty. Here critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has gathered 30 of today's most interesting and relevant artists and architects to interpret Barragan's work from every angle: contributors include Gilbert & George, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli & Weiss, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, Zaha Hadid, Roni Horn, Rem Koolhaas, Ed Ruscha and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 31
Soft architecture	p. 34
Spiritual retreat house (Cordoba house)	p. 36
A Project for the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona	p. 40
In conversation HUO (fragment) Istanbul-Paris, april 2004	p. 42
Chromosaturation	p. 46
The Barragan's house kaleidoscope	p. 50
Beding	p. 54
Ideal space	p. 58
12 Apartments	p. 64
Crumpled sheets	p. 72
About a love letter	p. 74
Exoplanet	p. 80
The air is blue	p. 84
The redwall	p. 86
Two-way mirror hedge labyrinth-water basin version	p. 90
B&B: an e-mail exchange	p. 92
The reason behind some photographs	p. 96
Barragan in black & white	p. 107
Excerpt from "Saying water", a monologue	p. 110
Comment retrieved from Casa Barragan's guest book	p. 119
Forgetting Barragan	p. 120
Bagdad panorama, view from Sheraton Hotel	p. 125
Houses With Horses	p. 126
Autumn pause, powerful and slow (Chronicle of Luis Barragan)	p. 128
Visiting Casa Barragan	p. 135
Tteia	p. 138
The battle of the ducks	p. 146
About Casa Barragan	p. 147
The air is virtual blue	p. 155
Un ciclope tuerto	p. 156
Villa S Lar vs. Casa Barragan	p. 166
Imaginary architecture	p. 170
In search of Barragan	p. 174
No Barragan, no cry	p. 176
Diaries (Barragan)	p. 178
Mirror chairs	p. 182
Interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist	p. 184
Barragan's Cadillac	p. 196
Casa-giardino	p. 200
Barragan's jukebox	p. 205
House-Wall	p. 222
Artist profiles	p. 225
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