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What is the Value of Historic Drawings for the Future? The Exhibition ‘Liminal Forms’ Wants to Find Out

2017-06-29T16:44:00-04:00

If you had to guess when some of the most pioneering and groundbreaking architectural drawing techniques were developed, it’s unlikely your first choice would be the 17th century.

The Trouble with a Bird’s Eye View: LA Forum's exhibition looks at Los Angeles from afar

2014-06-27T19:10:00-04:00

No single image can contain a city, particularly one as large as Los Angeles. But through the accumulation of many, it may be possible that the irreducible complexity of a city can become slightly more legible. Pairing aerial photographs by Los Angeles-based Lane Barden with a geo-mapping project by the German-American duo Benedikt Groß and Joseph K. Lee, the summer exhibition of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Design presents two distinct perspectives with which to view the city.

Shock of the new: "Beyond the Assignment" and architectural photography's future

2013-10-18T15:24:00-04:00

Smack in the middle of Hollywood, among costume shops, bars and a Scientology center, WUHO Gallery celebrated the opening of "Beyond the Assignment: Defining Photographs of Architecture and Design", an exhibition honoring the work of active architectural photographers from across the United States.

Architecture Photography in the 21st Century: Interview with Bilyana Dimitrova

2013-09-03T19:02:00-04:00

There’s no denying that architectural discourse has drastically expanded with the ease of image-sharing technology. Without even being in the same country as a building, anyone feels entitled to form an opinion of that structure based on photographs that are perpetuated over the internet, to the point where they almost become a stand-in for the actual structure. But the images that reach this singularity are rare, and may only achieve this state through carefully orchestrated harmony with their building-subjects.