Regard sur 10 ans d'Architecture par Gilles Alonso

Photographic exhibition

The primary reason for a building is its function.

To provide a home when it's a dwelling. To support the economy with factories, shops and warehouses. Educate with schools. Treat with hospitals. Cultivate with museums and libraries. Entertain with cinemas and theaters. Aid mobility with railway stations and airports. But also to support the power of the State with institutional or administrative buildings, barracks and courts.

This function always gives rise to a particular aesthetic.

Whether it's the geometric rigor of an industrial building or the ornamentation of a theater, this visual identity inevitably becomes a subject for an architectural photographer.

The choice of angle, composition, framing and light are the means at his disposal to transcribe the architect's creative work into images.

I'm particularly interested in the dialogue between a building and its environment, and the symbiosis between form and function.

Our daily lives are shaped by this relationship with the built environment, and every society needs it to develop harmoniously.

That's why, for over 10 years now, as a freelance photographer, I've always enjoyed graphically documenting our built heritage, whether it's spectacular or modest, at the ends of the earth or in my own town, just out of the ground or present for centuries.

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