Over a decade ago, in 2004, Athens was hosting the Olympic Summer Games. Anno 2017 however, we have to realize that the organisation of the event was nothing more than the realisation of a romantic dream that contributed to the current financial situation in the country. Greece wasn’t able to...
Vesa Pihanurmi: Floating City
These architectural abstractions extract the images of the buildings out of their real world surroundings and place them upon abstract art context. This makes us pay attention to the details, colors and geometry of the partly worn out and even centuries old architecture on a completely different way. The images...
Michela Ronco: Bari, I searched the city
Says Michela: Analysing the city of Bari, I focused my attention on the city planning and how it influences the contemporary lifestyle of its inhabitants. Starting from the Libertà neighbourhood, I searched for the city in all its complexity. Nowadays, the XIXth Century origin of its structure contributes to the...
Martin Vaissie: Invidia
The mood of a lost desire. The Invidia series delves discreetly into the intimate settings of human activity. In domestic or spiritual settings, the people captured seem to have accepted the new items of clothing that time has offered to them. All with one common denominator: a clear and accepted...
Ricardo Nunes: Places of Disquiet
About his series says Ricardo: In 2016 and 2017 I travelled several times through Portugal, following old memories of places I might have been. Since I was born, I had to visit the land of my parents to spend time with distant relatives, who lived in commuter towns on the outskirts...
Nik Brezginov: Geometry of Energy
Power transmission lines are components of the electric power system, designed for the transmission of electrical energy. Power transmission lines supports are structural elements of transmission lines that hold the power line wires at a certain distance from each other and from the ground surface. Few of us now can...
Aurelien Marechal: Block
Urbanization in China has grown dramatically from the 1990s and exceeded the 50% threshold for the first time in 2011. By 2050, according to the United Nations prognosis, the percentage of people living in urban areas will reach 77%. As a result, the continued development of real estate infrastructure has...
Loïc Vendrame: Future Rust, Future Dust
This long term documentary project across several countries around the world aims to analyse the urban and architectural impact of the last world financial crisis and the burst of the real estate bubble, through a ‘concrete tsunami’ exploration of ghost cities, aborted tourism projects, or unused infrastructures which are the...
Luca Abbadati: PIECES
About his work says Luca: The architectures are made of pieces. Individual pieces may also belong to other worlds. I'm interested in the geometric relationships between things and the proportions between natural and constructed elements. In the photographs I like the "not told" sometimes understandable sometimes imagined. Website: lucaabbadati.com
Diego Mayon: Athenstudio
Athenstudio is an architecture series with the aim to reveal an hidden face of the Greek capital through a socio-urban investigation: the high class brothels. Greece is in fact one of the few European countries that, regarding prostitution, follows a regulatory model: here the brothels are legally registered and offer...