Over the years, technological advances continuously unlock numerous design and structure possibilities with the most-used, man-made product: concrete. However, a structure made with these technological advances does not define it as modern architecture. The narrow-shaped Flatiron building in New York was possible thanks to steel framing, yet resembles the design of classical Greek column: a façade being divided into base, shaft and capital. Started in 1919 in Germany, the Bauhaus implemented a style that influenced and identified Modernist architecture, a movement that eliminates “unnecessary detail” and articulates materials as what they are. This project is a formal study on exposed concrete used in architecture as an aesthetic quality and the experience modern architecture brings to the user, a very graphical and geometrically driven one. The five, square format photographs were printed as a digital skin and then transferred to 12”x12”x1” pieces of concrete that directly provide the visual and textural experience of my subject matter.
