Architecture.
Xavier Barral| N° d'inventaire | 22155 |
| Format | 26 x 28.5 |
| Détails | 158 p., bound in cloth under dust jacket. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782365112420 |
The Architecture series by world-renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto begins with a commission from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which asked him to revisit the world's most iconic modern buildings. Sugimoto invites us on a journey that goes beyond the subject and encompasses a reflection on what architecture itself is in human life, but also on the role of photography in relation to the building. Always in his way of elevating his thinking with his art, he explains in his text, "At the beginning of his reflection, an architect thinks of his building as an ideal. As the project progresses, through plans and drawings, his ideal evolves according to the imperatives linked to budget, materials, and feasibility. As the construction site progresses, the original idea ends up dislocating until it is erased. A building is the result of incessant compromises between the dreamed ideal and reality. Refusing to submit to these compromises is the signature of the greatest architects." “The series shows us iconic and well-known buildings with a unique aesthetic that makes them pictorial works in their own right.
The Architecture series by world-renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto begins with a commission from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which asked him to revisit the world's most iconic modern buildings. Sugimoto invites us on a journey that goes beyond the subject and encompasses a reflection on what architecture itself is in human life, but also on the role of photography in relation to the building. Always in his way of elevating his thinking with his art, he explains in his text, "At the beginning of his reflection, an architect thinks of his building as an ideal. As the project progresses, through plans and drawings, his ideal evolves according to the imperatives linked to budget, materials, and feasibility. As the construction site progresses, the original idea ends up dislocating until it is erased. A building is the result of incessant compromises between the dreamed ideal and reality. Refusing to submit to these compromises is the signature of the greatest architects." “The series shows us iconic and well-known buildings with a unique aesthetic that makes them pictorial works in their own right.