The exhibition
photographs reproduced here - the Guggenheim Museum in New York
by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany
by Erich Mendelsohn, and the Church of the Light in Osaka, Japan
by Tadao Ando - are reduced to their essentials through a blurring
that accentuates light and form over materiality and detail.
At once a statement about architecture itself (Sugimoto definitely
prefers Modernism to Postmodernism), the images deal with our
perception of objects and our recollection of those objects,
each photo resembling our mind's eye view of the buildings rather
than a pure representation of them. Framing and view become
crucially important, because who would recognize the Guggenheim
if it didn't show the spiraling bands of concrete looking over
Fifth Avenue?
