Photography Exhibition THE WAY WE LIVE (in the eye of the architect)
CATEGORY 6: THE CITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
Author: Niels Rysz
Country: Denmark
Title 1: “Cemented”
Place: Port of Horsens, Denmark
Description: The photo shows two concrete mixers parked by the portside. Concrete is a vital part of the building industry, but also a huge contributor to climate change.
Title2: “Shipped”
Place: Port of Horsens, Denmark
Description: The photo shows the loading of a ship carrying sand. Incredibly, something as common as sand has become a scarce resource because of the enormous demands of the building industry.
Title 3: “The Pit”
Place: A sand pit near Gl. Rye, Denmark
Description: The photo shows the shapes and colours of a hybrid landscape combining the natural element (sand) with the traces of human activity.
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Author: Benny van der Plank
Title of the series: “Reaching North”
Place: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Description: Amsterdam-North is changing at a rapid pace. In 2006 I came to live in Amsterdam-North, it was quiet here. You wouldn't come to the North if you didn't have to be there. It’s getting busier nowadays, the southbank has become a tourist attraction. Thousands of new homes will be built in the coming years, which will double the population. Since the North/South metro line opened in 2018 North became accessible. Now, Dam Square is located just a few minutes from Amsterdam-North. The district has become part of the Center. New city districts are emerging around the nodes of the stations of the North/South metro line. Old neighborhoods are being renovated and new inhabitants moved in. North is in transition.
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Author: Neeshay Janjua
Title: “Giant Worm” Series
Place: Lahore, Pakistan
Description: It is a series of 3 images called “Giant Worm” and is a depiction of how Power controls us. The series is documented in an attempt to highlight the power struggle while the images are a representation of the indifference that comes with it. As the series is titled Giant worm, it is a comment on the fast paced mass construction leading to a soulless world where the only hunger is of POWER, and the importance of cities, if any is in achieving it at the expense of them. Mass construction has taken over the world where it’s a race with no end or consideration of the need for it. The concrete jungles are getting denser while the softness and diversity that once existed in cities is being lost as folklore as they are being swallowed by the wrath of mass construction hence referred to as “Giant Worm”.
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Author: Andi Papastefani
Country: Albania, Tirana
Title: “View of the City from Modern Battements”
Place: Tirana, Street of Kavaja
Description: The Urban Anarchy in Frame -Luxury materials hide urban infringements. Anarchy in urban planning is served as modernity
Bio: Andi Papastefani is an architect and urban sketcher. He is author of “Tirana -100 years capital” and “In Berat -walking and sketching”.
© Andi Papastefani “View of the City from Modern Battements”
Author: Clare Palmer
Title: “Looking Up to the Future”
Place: Vancouver, Canada
Description: This is a street level photo looking up at Vancouver House, a new building in downtown Vancouver. Depending on the viewing angle, this building appears to be a regular four-sided building, or one in which a whole section has been removed up from the base. Vancouver House is located on a triangular based plot of land, and so it was intentionally designed to twist up to a rectangle to make use of the air space. The city considers this design a compelling example of how Vancouver is growing architecturally, while making use of oddly shaped parcels of land. However, many locals are unsettled by this neo-futurist design. They find it very disturbing and feel it will topple.
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© Clare Palmer, “Looking Up to the Future”
Author: Iqro Rinaldi Saparin
Title: “The Eye Of Unfinished Architect”
Place: Jakarta, Indonesia
Description: Two side picture in a reflection, from worker between piling of the unfinished construction.
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© Iqro Rinaldi Saparin, “The Eye Of Unfinished Architect”
Author: Alketa Misja
Title: “The construction of Air-Albania stadium”
Place: Tirana, Albania
Description: The construction of Air-Albania stadium in the footprints of the old stadium, built in the ‘40s of the last century, in the style of rational modernism of the time. Although classified as national heritage, after many objections it was decided to demolish the old stadium to make way for the new and modern, that will be a landmark designed by an international architectural firm. I decided to capture the image in 4x5 inch film, with a vintage view camera of the same age as the old stadium. It looks like the camera of the past is looking at the technology of the future.
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© Alketa Misja “The construction of Air-Albania stadium”
Author: Ray Knox
Country: UK
Title: “Lego House”
Place: London, England, UK
Description: I think this building started life as mock-Tudor, but has morphed into a collection of school prefabs cobbled together on a north London suburban street.
No need for an architect, this was a job for Bob the builder.
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© Ray Knox “Lego House”
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