Graduating

A busy week: We did the London thing, Clare & I, and the Luis Barragan exhibition was cool, and it was interesting to see how a 'modern' architect worked outside Europe and, to a lesser extent, America. Many of the rough edges of modernist architecture in Europe aren't there in Barragan's work, but the interesting bits are, as is a knowledge and love of local building traditions and an awareness of the environment around a building — Barragan considered the garden to be an intrinsic part of a house, for example. His use of form and colour could be quite wonderful.

• 6.7.2001, 20.29
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