Architecture and Its Photographic Transmission in the Modern Age Through the Architecture of Luigi Moretti

Abstract

Architectural photography is about the transfer of a three-dimensional world onto a small, two-dimensional surface. This is also evidence of the interaction between two closely related and somehow contradictory disciplines, whose interaction has been increasingly increasing in recent times. Photography has changed the way we observe architecture. Architecture is inherently spatial and its essence is how spaces are designed. As a visual medium, photography captures these spatial qualities, emotions, and stories and holds the spaces. It serves as a bridge between the visions of architects and the public's understanding of architecture. The representational feature of photography is never a pure or natural reflection of the object. Through photography, we reflect a real object by differentiating it in our own language. Each photo means creating a new product from a different perspective. To give an example from an architectural perspective, a building produced by an architect transforms into a different architecture in each photograph. Photography establishes a mutually nourishing relationship with architecture. It is no longer just a marketing tool, but turns into a two-dimensional work of art consisting of 'artist impulses'. The aim of this topic is to search for photographic tools and methods of thinking about architecture, re-expressing architecture and speaking about architecture. In this context, the ideas of architecture and space in the photographic expressions of Le Corbusier and Luigi Moretti are examined. It also aims to explore the photographic attitudes of Corbusier and Moretti through them.