More of Architect's Luis Barragan, As a visit to the properties evince, Barragán’s houses were intended to be almost spiritual refuges - true microcosms that offered a sense of repose and tranquility. This effect is conveyed through the use of intimate public spaces, few windows and decorative flourishes that spanned modern art, folkloric items and pre-Colombian artifacts. And of course, through it all is the fearless color palette. In the Prizker prize-winning architect’s own words: “Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.”