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Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age

The Barbican Art Gallery in London is currently showcasing a landmark exhibition of eighteen outstanding photographers covering the time period from the 1930s to the present day who have influenced the way we view  20th and 21st century architecture on a global stage.

It investigates why architects, such as Charles and Ray Eames and Le Corbusier, used the power of the photographic image to…

It’s that time of year when people are placing large unwanted household items (or ”waste”) out in front of their residences in preparation for the annual Brisbane City Council kerbside collection.

Indeed “one person’s waste” can be “another’s treasure” and quite often I spotted people placing a pre-loved set of golf clubs, children’s bike,  or old washing machine in their boot or on the back of a…

Colourisation of B&W Images : YOUNG MAN IN 1940’S NEW YORK

Some great “colour reimagining” by Metacolour  of some of Vivian Maier’s amazing black and white street photography work.

Architecture in front of the Lens - A Nascent Personal Philosophy

“What does it take to be an emerging architectural photographer? How does one create a difference in a competitive world where just about everything seems to have been done?!

The explosive evolution of digital photography has resulted in massive daily streams of image content being generated and loaded onto electronic media (and viewed on social networks like Instagram and on-line blogs). In…

Picture of The Week 09-05-2014

Cool landscape architecture!

Picture of The Week 09-05-2014.

“Turkey-tecture” – Postscriptum

Aah how the world continues to surprise me!

A walk around UQ campus on Wednesday not only showed me other areas of brush turkey activity:

“Bark chip transfer zone” (between the UQ Staff & Graduates Club and the Zelman Cowan Building).

but also  updated me on how quickly the world of Turkey-tecture can change:

A newly clean-swept pathway between the Brush turkey nest on the Great Court (left) and…

A Concrete Clad World

We live in a world that is increasingly being clothed in concrete (or other man-made “garments”… like asphalt, steel, terracotta tiles, cut timber and corrugated iron).

In his book ‘Architecture of Density‘  photographer Michael Wolf displays a masterful visual record of some of the cityscapes we are creating and is perhaps a timely nudge to those who think that urban development is “boundless”.