Wow! We’re watching Monty Don’s Around The World In 80 Gardens, again. He’s in Mexico, and he starts in the brutally but beautifully modernist settings of three Luis Barragan buildings.
I love old traditional – conservative, even (note small ‘c’!) – art and architecture. And old grand homes. A lot of this kind of modernism leaves me cold. But this stuff? It blows my mind. And I think I mean that in the fellatio sense…
The use of colour and water, and the attention to small details, as well as the huge slabs of colour… breathtaking.
Truly astonishing stuff. And, despite the intellectualism and grandeur, very – to me at least – warmly human.
The use of the hot oranges and pinks… it is soooo divine.
Are those monumental pillars real? And look at the guy… he took himself seriously, bless him.
The architect had the large lectern you can see above, as a place where he’d display inspirational images.
By contrast, Los Pazos, by Edward James? Well, that’s for another post…