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This photoshoot was commissioned by Francis Lincoln Publisher for the upcoming book “Jim Stirling and the Red Trilogy: Three Radical Buildings” edited by Alan Berman. View the entire photoshoot here.
Charles Jencks describes the project in the chapter ‘James Sirling or Function made Manifest’ in the book ‘The modern movements in Architecture’ thus:
“Yet it was not until their next scheme, the leicester Engineering Building, that they [Stirling & Gowan] developed their idiom in complete maturity. Instead of drawing in perspective they switched to a bird’s eye view which could analyse and dissect the whole project showing the underlying anatomy. This method of drawing really is a method of designing for it allows the architect to work out the space, structure, geometry, function and detail altogether and without distortion.”
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Axonometric style, Aerial view of Leicester University, Engineering Building
The cantilevered lecture theatre, Leicester University, Engineering Building, Designed by James Stirling Architect, Completed 1959
The water tower sits atop glazed seminar rooms which runs at 45 degrees to the workshops
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Into Silent Skies #1. Images of Sydney Opera House Roof Shells
Into Silent Skies #4. Images of Sydney Opera House Roof Shells
Into Silent Skies #5. Images of Sydney Opera House Roof Shells
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
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The roof is constructed of a series of precast concrete “shells”. The roofs of the Sydney Opera House are covered in a subtle chevron pattern with 1,056,006 glossy white- and matte-cream-colored Swedish-made glazed ceramic tiles from Höganäs AB though, from a distance, the shells appear a uniform white.
Abstract image of the tiled fan pattern on two shells of the roof of Sydney Opera House
Abstract image of the tiled fan pattern of the roof Sydney Opera
Abstract image of the tiled fan pattern of the roof Sydney Opera
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
The skyline of downtown CBD Sydney seen from the Botanical Gardens at dusk.
The photograph includes the architecturally prominent buildings: Deutsche Bank Place. Architect: Norman Foster of Foster and Partners (triangular form). Chifley Tower. Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox (centre) Aurora Place. Architect: Renzo Piano (curved form)
Downtown Sydney at dusk with Flying Fox Bats
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
BridgeClimb participants and guide on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, Australia
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Pick Up Sticks Enterprises, Studio & Workshop of Architect & Artist Christopher Dukes, Kingsford, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sculpture detail made from weathered timber off cuts
Workshop interior
Two states of consciousness: the awakened state & the state of self-identification
Plants through the window
A Tale of Two Cities: Christopher Dukes
Drawing board in the studio
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Mies van der Rohe
The organisation of space is the realm of both architect and photographer. The nature of space, and the very means by which we recognise it, is always fluid and transitory. The photographer not only recognises great established relationships between familiar structures and their environment, but also observes the constantly evolving realignments or mutations, which exist between tradition and modernity, as much as between manmade structures and nature. There are moments of random interaction between humanity and the great landscapes of the natural world where an almost instinctive relationship can be captured in something as simple as a workmen’s goal mouth by a highway. Barriers, enclosures, walls and routes are not just overt structures but unspoken strictures. These attempts at definition and containment speak of deeper cultural and political truths. By looking at them, by bringing them together, hidden realities and sinister webs of power are gradually revealed.
Absolute boundaries
left: Tourist viewing platformfor looking into North Korea from the South Korean side of the 38th parallel. Situated on top of Dorasan (Mount Dora), the observatory looks across the Demilitarized Zone. It is the part of South Korea closest to the North. Mount Dora, South Korea, 2007
right: Road barrier above a steep drop at the edge of a newly completed section of the Interoceanic Highway in the Peruvian Andes. Above Cuzco, Peru, 2008
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Enveloping form
left: Scaffolding surrounding the second temple of Hera. The Greek Doric temple was built in about 450 BC. Paestum, Italy, 2001
right: Statue of Lenin at Sculpture Park (Fallen Monument Park), Moscow, Russia, 2007
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Extract from my architectural photography book, Drawing Parallels, Architecture Observed
Text & Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
“I often think of that rare fulfilling joy when you are in the presence of some wonderful alignment of events. Where the light, the colour, the shapes, and the balance all interlock so perfectly that I feel truly overwhelmed by the wonder of it.”
Charlie Waite
If architecture is the act of making shapes, from a detail to an overall impression, part of the art of photography is seeing and registering the wealth of changing forms and patterns that are created by the harmony and clash of buildings with their environments. The art of the contemporary photographer allows for the fine precision of focus on unnoticed, forgotten and ignored details which exist almost as structures in their own right. A doorway, a ceiling, a corner or a façade can come to life through the recognition of a composition. There are new forms, almost new works, created by the erosion of time. Decay and neglect fashion something fresh, whilst a fragment of a former whole achieves a revelatory beauty in its own right. This gallery of experience is new for each generation. The contemporary photographer not only notices and composes, but he can assemble to make unique modern statements.
Buildings without precedent
left:Wind towers (Badgir) next to a building which acts as a refrigerator to store food and Zoroastrian Tower of Silence (Dakhmeh). Yazd, Iran 2007
right: Clean water flows into the Thames from the northern outfall of Beckton Sewage TreatmentWorks. Sewage from 3.4 million Londoners is treated on site every day. Barking Creek Tidal Barrier, which resembles a giant guillotine, was built over four years and completed in 1983. It is about 60m high, which allows shipping to reach the Town Quay in Barking further upstream. The barrier crosses the Barking Creek reach of the River Roding at its confluence with the Thames. London, UK, 2003
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Convergence
left: Underside of the stage of the theatre in the inner garden, Yuyuan Garden, originally built in the 14th year of the Guangxu reign in the Qing Dynasty, 1888. The old stage underwent extensive rebuilding in 2005. Shanghai, China, 2007
right: Ashley Building, School of Humanities, University of Birmingham. Architect: Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis. Refurbished by Berman Guedes Stretton, Birmingham. UK, 2006
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Extract from my architectural photography book, Drawing Parallels, Architecture Observed
Text & Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
Archidose is a “A Daily Dose of Architecture”, a popular blog about architecture from New York City.
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An architectural photography assignment for Atkins Architecture.
The £4.7 million West Thurrock Primary School is based on a triangular plan with a circulation corridor that includes a library and social spaces. The IT centre is unusual for this age group, known as the ‘fishbowl’ the room has been designed with special windows giving glimpses in and out.
The photographic brief was to show the pupils using the school, emphasising movement where possible and the architecture of the building for Atkins Education marketing.
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
