“The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.”

—  Luis Barragán

In his acceptance of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1980

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Mexican architect 1902–1988

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