As You See: Photographic Constructs of Architecture

Abstract

From the earliest days of its invention, photography and architecture have been in a continuous interplay. Through photography, all kinds of images of the built envi- ronment have been produced and circulated. Photography has not been a passive or naïve tool for recording, describing, and documenting architecture. As a process of image-making, it has had many choices for picturing architecture. It renders what a camera sees in a photographic space. As a technique operated by different ways of seeing tocapture images and construct a discursive medium, photography has had significant effects on architectural imagination, design, practice, and critique. This essay aims to track photography’s implications transforming architecture by displaying several interfaces between architecture and photography.