blank walls, one example in a domestic building and the other behind a commercial building.
two walled areas, one a garden in luis barragans house in mexico city, and the other a car park to the side of a bank at bathurst and bloor. both of them examples of what can be termed muralism, the use of pure wall planes as the aesthetic of a building.
barragan, one of the few architects who intentionally give pure wall surface preminance in this way is the only one i can think of with a celebrity status. he has books written on his buildings, books with photos of the finished places the buildings form.
i don't know the name of the architect for the backside of the bank, and because it seems too planned to of been accidental i include it here with barragans patio as examples of muralism, the intentional use of wall surface to emphasize the form of a place.
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