The Capital Series

Print edition (1/4) +2 sets of the complete series that includes 52 works 

Size 48 works 80x80cm/106x106cm, 4 works 80x60cm/106x80cm

About :

The Capital Series documents modernist architecture through systematic photographic studies of one building from each of Europe's 52 capital cities. Confronted with the inherent aesthetic constraints of existing structures, I developed a rigorous creative framework that transforms documentation into artistic interpretation.

Each image undergoes a consistent methodological process, preserving the essential textures, forms, patterns, and colors that initially drew me to these architectural works. Through careful deconstruction and reassembly, my photographs evolve into rhythmic collages of repeating elements that define the project's distinctive visual language.

My approach parallels how musicians sample existing recordings to create entirely new compositions. This visual remixing technique allows me to extract, isolate, and reconfigure the fundamental building blocks of modernist design. The resulting work offers both a celebration and critical examination of modernist architectural principles, revealing hidden patterns and unexpected harmonies across Europe's diverse urban landscapes.

The project encompasses works by many of architecture's most influential voices, including Alvar Aalto, Ioannis Vikelas, Pei Cobb Freed, Zaha Hadid, 3XN, Henning Larsen, Daniel Libeskind, Jaspers-Eyers, Dominique Perrault, Renzo Piano, Fuksas, Wingårdh, Snøhetta, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Jean Nouvel, and Foster and Partners. This deliberate curation allows for critically examining how diverse architectural languages respond to different cultural contexts while remaining within modernist traditions.

This methodology resonates with Beatriz Colomina's theory that architecture exists as much through its mediated representations as physical form. By fragmenting and reconfiguring architectural elements, I engage with what Andreas Huyssen describes as the "palimpsestic" nature of contemporary urban space, where multiple historical and aesthetic layers coexist and interact. The systematic documentation approach echoes the typological studies of Bernd and Hilla Becher, while my compositional techniques draw from Rosalind Krauss's concepts of the photographic grid as a modernist organizational device. Through this theoretical lens, my work transcends mere documentation to become an interpretive system that interrogates both modernism's legacy and photography's role in constructing architectural meaning.