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Torres de Satélite

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Description

Luis Barragán_arch.px Ciudad de México, 1958 --- Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín | Mexican architect and engineer, considered the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century ... In the context of the "Satellite City" project on the outskirts of Mexico City, Luis Barragán was commissioned to create a fountain that would serve as a distinctive element. Together with sculptor Mathias Goeritz, they designed five triangular-shaped cement towers of different colors and heights, reaching 52 meters in height, which are completely hollow and without a roof ... the prisms manage to deceive their geometry while movement modifies their perception; sometimes appearing as regular planes, other times as lines disappearing into the sky, as thin vertices or as heavy walls ... they stand out for their intense color and over the years, the towers have undergone various modifications in their color palette. The original colors were white, yellow, and ocher, inspired by the towers of San Gimignano in Italy. However, for the 1968 Olympics, they were painted orange as suggested by Mathias Goeritz, to contrast with the blue sky. Then, in 1989, the towers were repainted: two white towers, one blue, one yellow, and one red ... the work is seen as an experiment, an inseparable conjunction between architecture and sculpture --- 1980x1980px

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Token ID: 15

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