Camera lucida

In August 2011 we embarked on an architectural road trip that began in Washington D.C., progressed through rural Pennsylvania, and ended up in Chicago, where we took the Mies tour. For me Wright’s renowned Fallingwater was a disappointment. It didn’t match up to what I had imagined. While the house sat beautifully in the landscape,…

dereksayer

March 8, 2023

architecture, landscape, modernism, reflections, rural

Pennsylvania

Mies: light, air, clarity

The Barcelona photos were taken in April 2015, the rest in August 2011. Barcelona pavilion (1929) Lake Shore Drive apartments, Chicago (1951) Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois (1951) S. R. Crown Hall, IIT Campus, Chicago (1956) See also my post Mies #2: the Tugendhat villa

dereksayer

March 8, 2023

architecture, cities, landscape, modernism, reflections, rural

Barcelona, Plano, Spain

liberté, égalité, Beyonce

I took these photos in Athens, Greece, in June 2016. I combined these and other images with text for an exhibition titled EX SITU: (Un)making Space out of Place, which formed the basis of an eponymous photobook. All participants were asked to couple up to six images with the same number of texts, each of no…

dereksayer

March 7, 2023

cities, graffiti

Athens, Greece

Canadiana #1

Two quintessentially Canadian images to launch this site. solitary walker in a Canadian landscape Calgary Bottomlands, December 21, 2022 chinooky sky downtown Calgary from Tom Campbell’s Hill, January 11, 2023

dereksayer

March 7, 2023

Canadiana, cities, landscape, skies, winter

Calgary