Enchantment
Who watches from behind the screen of bushes, rocking quietly on a chair in the shade of the porch? What happens behind that mass of green, where birds play and cats lurk? When might a hand quietly pull open the french doors allowing the light to filter in and the drapes to blow in the wind?
It is alarming 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. -Luis Barragán, Pritzker Prize Acceptance Speech, 1980
Starting another series based on the above quote from Luis Barragán, the early modernist from Mexico. Each post will attempt to capture the quality of the banished words Barragán lists.