Nigel Green
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A more critical and reflexive use of the image within the architectural media would not eradicate the existing model with the replacement of one form of architectural photography with another. Instead a critical image of architecture would evolve: relational, its meaning and significance formed within a diverse field of imaging, and more broadly representative of architecture’s processes. A reform of the architectural photograph needs a reactivation of the site of its publication as a discursive platform in which a portrait of architecture is understood as both a project and a projection: a work of construction in image and text. Such an approach to architectural documentation within the journals requires internal editorial support, a protracted process of dialogue with a receptive editor. The examples here are taken from a building report I produced in collaboration with the artist and photographer Nigel Green for The Architects’ Journal in 2007.
courtesy The Architects Journal
above left: fragments of the front facade of OSH House, unused withing the AJ report above: a page from the AJ building report showing the early drawings of the site, the context and the architecture of the Toh Shimazaki/ OSH house.
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