Wilson, Robin;
(2022)
A Crisis of Indeterminacy in the Architectural Photograph: Architectural Spectacle and Everyday Life in the Photography of Lacaton & Vassal's Coutras House.
In: Bobic, Nikolina and Haghighi, Farzaneh, (eds.)
The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume 1: Violence, Spectacle and Data.
(pp. 330-345).
Routledge: New York.
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Abstract
This chapter offers a close reading of two sets of photographs of a house designed by French architects Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal. Taken by Philippe Ruault and Hisao Suzuki, they were published in architectural journals in 2001 and 2017 respectively. With reference to theories of representation within the work of art historian Norman Bryson and philosopher Louis Marin, the chapter reveals the role of compositional devices and reflexive imaging strategies that diversify from the generic norms of architectural photography and its system of exclusions, which have dominated the idiom from the Modern period. Highlighting the photographers’ different approaches to the recording of the material traces of everyday life within the building and the subsequent intervention of journal editors within this record, the chapter describes how the published architectural photograph can manifest a complex and contested discourse of architectural representation, containing conflicting conceptions of architectural authorship and accomplishment.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Crisis of Indeterminacy in the Architectural Photograph: Architectural Spectacle and Everyday Life in the Photography of Lacaton & Vassal's Coutras House |
| ISBN-13: | 9780367629175 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003112464-26 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003112464-26 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | architectural photography, spectacle, rhopography, megalography |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10162786 |
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