{"id":12167,"date":"2021-08-09T13:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T11:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/projekt\/the-travelling-architects-eye-photography-and-automobile-vision\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T20:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:44:55","slug":"the-travelling-architects-eye-photography-and-automobile-vision","status":"publish","type":"projekt","link":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/projekt\/the-travelling-architects-eye-photography-and-automobile-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"The Travelling Architect\u2019s Eye: Photography and Automobile Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This research project aims to investigate the status of the photographs that architects take during their travels by car. It is based on the hypothesis that the view from the car has established a new epistemology of the urban landscape and the territory at large. Focusing on the views from the car produced by the architects under study will help us to better understand how this epistemological shift influenced architectural thinking and practice. The automobile, since its invention, has reshaped our conceptions of space, revolutionized the way architects perceive the city, and significantly contributed to the transformation of the relationship between architecture and the city. Plus, one should not forget the importance of the car itself: indeed, no other factor changed the city so drastically during the twentieth century as the pervasive presence of the automobile, which had a significant impact, not only on the ways one accesses the city, but also on the city\u2019s own relation to its territory. The project will focus on the close examination of photographs taken by architects John Lautner (1911 \u2013 1994), Alison and Peter Smithson (1928 \u2013 1993 &amp; 1923 \u2013 2003), and Aldo Rossi (1931 \u2013 1997), which will contribute to a broader understanding of the process of viewing and photographing scenes from a car, and the elaboration of a \u201csnapshot aesthetics\u201d to capture contemporary urban life in its ordinariness and banality. A point of convergence between these architects\u2019 approach is the attention they paid to the role played by automobile transport in the reorientation of how we perceive urban landscapes and territories. This project is based upon the conviction that to develop taxonomies of the photographs of these architects \u2013 according to scenography and subject matter, for instance \u2013 would allow us to discern patterns in their approach to urban design, as well as in their conceptions of the urban fabric. In parallel, it would help us comprehend how they categorized the elements of the landscapes that captured their attention.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17162\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17162 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/New-Image-for-travelling-architect.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"760\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pages from Alison Smithson, AS in DS: An Eye on the Road. Baden: Lars. Muller Verlag, 2001. Original edition: AS in DS: An Eye on the Road. Delft: Delft University Press, 1983. \u00a9 Smithson Family Collection in Stamford, UK.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This research project aims to investigate the status of the photographs that architects take during their travels by car. It is based on the hypothesis that the view from the car has established a new epistemology of the urban landscape and the territory at large. 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