Has photography changed in its relationship to architecture? And if so,
did it change of its own accord, driven by an internal logic, in response to
specific motivations? Or rather, has the art of building evolved so much,
in terms of tectonic as well as topological structures, that one may no longer
avail oneself, in its regard, of the received forms of “architecture photography”
that have long been a choice reference for specialized journals?
Whether these two questions meet or overlap (as occurs when one leafs
through the photographs of the Casa da Música of Porto selected by the
members of the OMA team overseeing the project), they give pause to
reflect on the conditions in which architecture may “produce an image,”
in what forms and to what ends, within the context of what might be called