Introduction

by Pedro Leão Neto

I am very pleased to introduce the 2nd number of Sophia from the series Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries, with the theme “Photography and Architecture” coming from our 4th edition of the international conference On the Surface, being the Guest Editor for this number Iñaki Bergera … Read more

Editorial: Architecture and Photography: old visions under new lightS

by Iñaki Bergera

In a way, we could consider that the main scaffolding of the theoretical discourse of architectural photography —particularly on what regards to the Modern Movement— has already been profiled by the specialized historians and researchers. International research projects promoted by several universities and also by museums, archives, and other … Read more

Photography Keeps an Eye on the Photographer

by Paolo Rosselli

I think we can all agree on one point, that architecture is the main territory of photography. This is the case because ever since Atget’s time our way of duplicating the world has been done in the city; and probably without the city photography would not
even exist. Architecture is the training ground for beginners, who take pictures of the street … Read more

Architectural photography as a resumption.
ReFLections on the medium

by Mariela Apollonio

A large number of researchers and theorists agree that the inseparable link between photography, architecture and the mass media, as we know it today, came about with the emergence of the Modern Movement or International Style in architecture. During this period, and for the first time, architectural firms began to think about … Read more

Narrative Takes Command: Revisiting Manplan and Fotoromanzo, photo sequences in architectural magazines around 1970

by Carlos Machado e Moura

London, September 1969. Hubert de Cronin Hastings, director of The Architectural Review, radically changes the form and editorial content of the magazine, transforming it into a model almost exclusively composed of photography. This change gives way to eight special issues titled Manplan, composed of photographic essays … Read more

CRIL.
Under the light of the sun also the sounds shine.
Photography, a mode of inhabiting the world.

by Sebastiano Raimondo

To be, to inhabit although temporarily, a place with a photographic camera is a concrete spacial experience, which can produce several effects, outside and inside us, for as representation[1] it builds an analogical image, a “replica” of the world to decode, that is: autonomous objects in the place of others, whose …  Read more

Re-interpreting Kidder Smith’s Italy Builds:
crossovers between photography and architecture.

by Angelo Maggi

George Everard Kidder Smith (1913-1997) was an American architect and photographer. Photo historian Robert Elwall (1953-2012) considered him as an “architectural photographer on the run” because he travelled widely and “seldom taking more than fifteen minutes over a shot, never … Read more