The Widest Vibration

Essay, Good Vibrations, Middle Density, Ricardo Devesa, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Architecture&design, Building, City views, Collective housing, Collective identity, Context, Design strategies, Essay, France, Greenery, Landmark, Multiscale approach, Neighborhood, Paris, Photography, Relational space, Symbolic context, Transformation, Urban Dialogue, User’s experience, Volume

Excerpt from "Good Vibrations" published by Actar Publishers -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2017960641

What should I observe about an architectural design? This question, which critics ask ourselves as we prepare to write about a building, also applies to photographers as they prepare to document a project. What should I photograph? Its façades, details, unique spaces – in other words, its architectural conditions, like 99% of building photographs? Very few photo essays and critical texts, however, set out to reveal a building’s relationships to its surroundings, which tend to be less obvious. Ultimately, in this case, as critic and photographer, we both set out to describe an object and the relationships it establishes with its environs.