The course aims to introduce students to the themes, concepts, media, and practices in architectural photography. It intends to provide knowledge and a critical understanding of architecture’s engagement with the photographic medium by developing awareness that photography is a means for architectural documentation, and it can also mediate creating new ideas on space, time, and architecture. The course further enables students better to comprehend architecture’s visual and spatial discourse through photography.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Explain the role of photography in forming the visual culture of architecture and how architecture, in turn, shapes the production of photography,
2. Use photographic work to develop critical ways of seeing, understanding, and representing architectural space,
3. Illustrate the behavior and spatial principles of light and time through photographs,
4. Propose an intellectual opinion and a personal reflection on the photographic work of self and others,
5. Prepare a photography project concerning the architectural environment.