Architecture

The Architecture series by world-renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto started from a commissioned work from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Angeles, asking him to revisit the most modern buildings iconic of the world. 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 photography facing the building. Always in his way of elevating his thought with his art, he explains in his text "At the start of his reflection, a architect thinks of his building as ideal. As the project progresses, by dint of of plans and drawings, his ideal evolves according to the imperatives linked to the budget, materials, feasibility. As the work progresses, the original idea ends up disintegrating until it is erased. A building is the fruit of incessant compromises between the dreamed ideal and reality. Refusing to bowing to these compromises is the signature of the greatest architects." The series shows us emblematic and well-known constructions with an unprecedented aesthetic that makes them become unique pictorial works whole.