Mirando fotografías, pensando en arquitectura

Authors

  • Hugh Campbell University College Dublín (Irlanda)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201792265

Keywords:

Photography, Architecture, Education, Rinko Kawauchi, Alec Soth

Abstract

This article offers some reflections on the relationship between architecture and photography based on the outcomes of a graduate seminar, ‘Space Framed’, which asks students to engage critically with photographic projects dealing with aspects of the built and inhabited world. The seminar aims to move beyond the typical terms of the photography-architecture relationship, in which, on the one hand, architecture is seen as being ‘served’ by photography amd, on the other hand, architecture serves merely as the subject matter for photography. Instead, the focus is on the shared impulses and modes of the two disciplines: the study of how space is shaped, framed and inhabited. The article concludes with two case studies which are representative of two ‘tendencies’ within photography – the first concerning itself with fleeting moments of wonder, the second describing the larger social scene. The Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi exemplifies the first tendency, and the American Alec Soth the second. Reflections are offered on what this study can offer to developing teaching and research in this area.

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Author Biography

Hugh Campbell, University College Dublín (Irlanda)

Hugh Campbell ocupa el puesto de Catedrático de Arquitectura en la UCD (University College Dublin) desde septiembre de 2008 y, desde septiembre de 2009, ostenta también el cargo de Decano de la Escuela de Arquitectura. En 2011 pasó a ser jefe de departamento de la Escuela de Arquitectura, y actualmente es además responsable de Política de planificación urbanística y medioambiental de dicha escuela. En 1998, Campbell obtuvo su primer doctorado en arquitectura por la University College Dublin con una disertación sobre las políticas de desarrollo urbano en el siglo diecinueve en Dublín. Su actual actividad de investigación se centra en dos aspectos principales: una serie de documentos sobre fotografía, espacio y uno mismo, la cual está convirtiendo en una monografía, y un proyecto de gran envergadura de la Real Academia Irlandesa, Art and Architecture of Ireland (“Arte y arquitectura de Irlanda”), una obra de cinco tomos publicada por Yale University Press en 2014. Asimismo, es coeditor junto con Rolf Loeber y otros del tomo 4 de Architecture in Ireland 1600 - 2000 (“La arquitectura en Irlanda 1600 – 2000”). Junto con Nathalie Weadick, de la Irish Architecture Foudation, comisarió la exposición de Irlanda, The Lives of Spaces, en la Bienal de Venecia de 2008.

 

Hugh Campbell took up the position of Professor of Architecture at UCD In September 2008, and from September 2009 he is also Dean of Architecture. In 2011 he became Head of the School of Architecture, and he is currently Head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy. In 1998, Campbell received the first PhD in Architecture to be awarded by the University College Dublin, with a dissertation on the politics of urban development in nineteenth-century Dublin. His current research activity has two main aspects, an ongoing series of papers on photography, space and the self, which he is currently developing into a monograph Space Framed – Photography, Architecture and the Inhabited Environment, and a major Royal Irish Academy project, the Art and Architecture of Ireland, a five volume work published by Yale University Press in 2014. He is co-editor with Rolf Loeber and others of volume 4, Architecture in Ireland 1600 - 2000. With Nathalie Weadick of the Irish Architecture Foundation, he curated Ireland’s exhibition at the 2008 Venice Biennale, The Lives of Spaces.

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Published

2017-12-04

How to Cite

Campbell, H. (2017). Mirando fotografías, pensando en arquitectura. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, (9), 10–25. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201792265

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No. 9 (2017): Architecture, the Art of Looking and Visual Culture

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