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By Cesar Murillo
No person shall live forever-- but the spirit of One, the essence of an era can be eternalized through the magic of a single painting; thus provoking our feelings, suggesting new dimensions, and inspiring new uses for people, buildings, cities, nations, and dreams. In celebration of the dead, CASA: Chicano/Latino Architecture Student Association acknowledges the lives of painters like Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, David Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Andres de Santa Maria, and architect-painter Luis Barragán. We believe that painters are able to transform a canvass into an illustration of dreams, or any emotion. In this celebration, our altar depicts the paintings of the artists, because we want to remember them for their talent, their ideas, and perspectives of the world—rather than just as faces. Their work is important to us as architecture students for it allows us to see the world visually, and inspire us to create spaces, volumes, needed to create architecture. Similarly, by depicting Luis Barragán and the tools he might have used to produce his work, wood, paint, and brushes, we commemorate his life, and our current hopes as future designers/architects.
[what is dia de los muertos?]
