GLIMPSES

Yet another text on the theme of 'arty' images#: this project is almost an exemplar, with its specialist images that leave one wondering why; and what for? We need to find ways to communicate what a project is really like rather than working hard to create a set of pretty bits and pieces, no matter how nice they might be - see: https://www.archdaily.com/980847/gambetta-apartment-jean-benoit-vetillard-architecture. This strategy seems to propose 'digital' seeing, presenting singular bit by singular bit, with the conglomerate experience being the accumulation of the overall feeling for the set of carefully composed photographs.* Experience is always much more than this.

For more on the subject, see:

https://voussoirs.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-architectural-image.html;

https://voussoirs.blogspot.com/2022/04/architectural-jigsaws.html;

https://voussoirs.blogspot.com/2022/04/more-jigging-sawing.html;

https://voussoirs.blogspot.com/2022/05/four-new-projects.html.

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NOTE:

The ability of the eye to ‘see as’ is always surprising. The classic example is Wittgenstein's duck-rabbit. The collection of carefully composed photographic images of architectural detail that seems to have become the new norm for publication of a project, relies on something like this mechanism of perception to offer a sense of the qualities of the whole project. The work of Helga Stentzel clearly shows the deception, which in Stentzel’s work is a happy illusion: see – https://www.helgastentzel.com/. In architecture, the same operation can become misleading, a crafty artifice.

Helga Stentzel's works.

Variations of the duck-rabbit illusion.