Architectural photography

Photographer Adam Wiseman documents self-built houses in rural Mexico

Travelling the rural landscape and outer urban neighbourhoods of Mexico, photographer Adam Wiseman has documented the country’s rural self-built structures in a new series. Mostly designed and built by non-architects, the houses lift references from a hotch-potch of sources such...

French nightclubs by day, suburban housing and a replica Paris in China

Paris syndrome is a genuine mental disorder experienced by some tourists on arrival in the French capital. The first documented case of the culture shock sickness was recorded by professor Hiroaki Ota in 1986, when it manifested itself in a...

California’s forgotten roadside architecture makes for a wild West Coast drive

‘Monstrosities’: a word long-associated with the architectural anomalies littered along California highways. A new book published by Taschen – California Crazy: American Pop Architecture – seeks to convince us otherwise. In the 1920s, as the age of the automobile was revving up, local...

Vancouver exhibition celebrates mid-century architecture photographer Selwyn Pullan

The West Vancouver Museum’s ‘Selwyn Pullan: What’s Lost’ – their third exhibition of the work of Canada’s answer to Julius Shulman in a decade – is as much about the loss of chemical photography as it is about Vancouver’s vanishing...

The untold story of the architect who turned Spain’s modernist power plants into art

This is a tale of both a family and a country, and their heritages that spanned nearly half a century. Deep in the Cantabrian Mountains, some 150 kilometres away from his hometown Oviedo in northern Spain, a young Joaquín Vaquero...

Photographer Bas Princen explores the relationship between image and architecture

‘Bas Princen. Image and Architecture’ at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery presents a selection of lyrical architectural photographs by Bas Princen that explore the historic relationship between architecture and material culture. The Dutch photographer and artist, who trained as an industrial designer in...

Tim Street-Porter’s photo diary of modernist marvels in Palm Springs

With Modernism Week in full flow, what better time to release a new tome that celebrates the desert haven of Palm Springs and its architectural allure. Design and architectural photographer Tim Street-Porter has previously contributed to many architectural volumes including L...

Kate Ballis’ spellbinding infrared vision of California

Sto Werkstatt gallery celebrates architectural photography in a show designed by Mobile Studio Architects

Showcasing the annual architectural photography awards through an imaginative design, ‘Building Images’ is back at the Sto Werkstatt gallery in London for the fifth year running. The show, which highlights work by some of the best of the year’s architectural...

Photographer James Brittain gets under the skin of Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67

Does architectural photography always need to look so pristine? One practitioner is not so sure. James Brittain, whose day job is shooting newly-completed buildings for architects, has this time turned his lens towards a structure that is more than half...

Take off: a book celebrates the architecture of Julien De Smedt

At just over ten years in existence, JDS Architects, and its founder, Julien De Smedt, have already made their mark on the world architecture map with large-scale public projects such as the Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo (one of the most...

Nihon noir: Tom Blachford sheds light on Tokyo’s dark side

There’s nothing Tom Blachford won’t do to get the perfect shot: whether it be stealing onto a property in the dead of the night to unscrew an irksome lightbulb, or, in the case of his latest project, Nihon Noir, commandeering...