LUIS BARRAGÁN, MATHIAS GOERITZ, TORRES DE LA CIUDAD SATÉLITE, MEXICO CITY 1957
"The Towers (..) aided by their triangular plan these shats seem to navigate their sharp keels in a forward motion. As the viewer moves around, they seem constantly to shift profiles and change heights." E. Ambasz, 1989
"experienced from the passing car, they shifted into ever-changing alignments, one moment massive and solid, the next planar and immaterial (…) Barrágan took the language of modern art abstract painting, transforming the real into the illusionistic, the illusionistic into the real." W.J.R. Curtis, 1982
"Las Torres de la Ciudad Satélite son inutiles, de un pays y un continente complido a aceptar mansamente ese future immediate disenâdo en las torres útiles de Wall Steet. Fueron costruidas allí ya como recuerdos, come arquelogías en las que la inutilidad tamaba fácilmente tonos metafisícos, aires de eternidad." J. Molina y Vedia, 2001
"Come la peau sur l’ossature, le coleur habille l’ordre rationnel de la structure. Elle s’en détache enfois avec l’évidence immédiate de la perception, l’occultant. Parfois, au contraire, elle l’accompagne, le révélant. Toute l’histoire de l’architecture raconte le vicessitudines de ce couple, tantôt harmonieux, tantôt désaccordé." B. Paczowski, 2001
"By generative primaries I shall mean the colors needed to produce a large range of colors physically or physiologically; whereas fundamental primaries are the basic pure colors on which the sense of sight builds the organization of color patterns perceptually … red, blu and yellow." R. Arnheim, 1954