Architectural photography
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Iwan Baan’s photography exhibition journeys from Las Vegas to Rome
Iwan Baan’s photography exhibition ‘From Las Vegas to Rome’ creates a dialogue between the two cities through crowds, architecture and cityscapes from above
By Martha Elliott • Last updated
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‘Site Unseen’ explores viewing and documenting architecture through photography
The Center of Contemporary Photography in Melbourne invites us to ‘Site Unseen', an exhibition about different ways of viewing and documenting architecture
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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2022 Sony World Photography Awards: architecture category and more winners
The architecture winner is revealed in the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards announcement, while all winning work goes on show at London’s Somerset House
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Architecture book celebrates London’s most iconic council houses
On World Book Day, we explore The Council House by Jack Young, which celebrates iconic council houses across London
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Ricardo Bofill’s La Muralla Roja as captured by Sebastian Weiss
As a tribute to architecture icon Ricardo Bofill (1939 – 2022) we revisit Hamburg-based photographer Sebastian Weiss’ captivating photo series on ‘La Muralla Roja’, first published in 2020
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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Feast your eyes on the 2021 Architectural Photography Awards winners
We raise a glass to the winners of the 2021 Architectural Photography Awards
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Extensive architecture atlas charts unseen France
Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier’s Atlas des Régions Naturelles – a website and a book – celebrates building variety in French architecture
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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A photographic trip through America’s roadside façades
In her ongoing series, The Mother Road, Hayley Eichenbaum documents the tainted romanticism of roadside architecture on Route 66 in the American Southwest
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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Explore architectural light and form through the lens of Hélène Binet
‘Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet’, the Royal Academy of Arts’ newest exhibition in London, celebrates the Swiss-French photographer’s career and sublime work
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Photographer Dia Mrad captures aftermath of 2020 Beirut explosion
Architecture-trained photographer Dia Mrad’s first solo show, ‘The Road to Reframe', captures local architecture after the Beirut explosion of 2020, in terrible, dramatic, ‘surrealist' stillness
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Sony World Photography Award names best architecture images for 2021
The 2021 Sony World Photography Award has announced its winners, including two categories focusing on architectural photography
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Janne Tuunanen captures modernist architecture of renovated Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Photographer Janne Tuunanen captures the sharp modernist architecture of the recently renovated Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Finland in his latest series
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Tour Alvar Aalto's modernist architecture in Jyvaskyla, Finland
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Travel to Brasilia with photographer Vincent Fournier
We tour Brazil's mesmerising capital through the lens of artist and photographer Vincent Fournier and his latest book, Brasília: A Time Capsule
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Tom Blachford creates a cinematic dystopia from Japan’s brutalist past
In a new chapter of his series Nihon Noir, the night-crawling photographer captures the futuristic metropolises of Tokyo and Kyoto to dystopian effect
By Harriet Lloyd Smith • Last updated
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Exploring Milan's colourful surfaces through Stefan Giftthaler's lens
Photographer Stefan Giftthaler explored the imaginative mosaic of Milan's urban architecture, just days before the city was plunged into lockdown
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Dive into Milan's modernist swimming pools in pictures
Tour Milan's numerous swimming pools through the lens of photographer Stefan Giftthaler, who has created a mesmerising photo series of those oft-overlooked Italian architecture marvels
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Architectural abstraction through the lens of Nikola Olic
‘Structure Photography', a series of work by the US based photographer, explores unusual buildings, shapes, visual effects and colour combinations in modern architecture
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Artist Bosco Sodi on his inclusive vision for Mexico’s Casa Wabi
Casa Wabi, on the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, combines world-class architecture by Tadao Ando with a mission to promote social commitment through art.
By TF Chan • Last updated
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Haunting photos capture the secrets of Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia ghost house
Photographer Jason Oddy takes us through his series on Casa Niemeyer, the house in Brasilia that legendary modernist Oscar Niemeyer designed for himself and lived in while the Brazilian capital was under construction
By Jason Oddy • Last updated
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Annabelle Selldorf designs limited-edition cover for Wallpaper’s May 2020 Issue
Each month Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover, available exclusively to our subscribers. For the May 2020 issue we invited architect Annabelle Selldorf, in conjunction with our 16-page headline feature on Hauser & Wirth’s first ground-up gallery space, on Manhattan’s West Side. Here, Selldorf shares her insights into architectural photography and the secret life of things
By TF Chan • Last updated
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Photographer Tom Blachford engineers an impossible vision of Melbourne architecture
The Australian city becomes a dizzying spectacle of buildings and lights in his dystopian new series
By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated
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London's brutalist Thamesmead estate is on the brink of renewal
Ahead of Peabody's significant regeneration of south east London's Thamesmead area, take an architectural and photographic tour of its past
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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Twenty modernist houses by Gerrit Rietveld documented in detail for the first time
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Daniel Simon and Benedict Redgrove on designing and shooting ‘Robocar’
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Eccentric houses in Southern Puglia offer a new take on modernity
Discovering a sense of freedom from form in Southern Puglia, Salento Moderno documents a distinct breed of Italian houses with an imaginative and anarchic approach to architecture.
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Photographer Adam Wiseman documents self-built houses in rural Mexico
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated