Hélène Binet (Broché)

It is the purpose of the series "Forty eight pages on teaching architecture" to witness the ways in which today's architectural culture is approached and transmitted through teaching. The publications especially focus on the activity of the visiting professors invited at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture (architecture as well as other subjects), and thus preserve their cultural contribution. "Hélène Binet's photographs pose intriguing questions about the relations of the viewed subject and the artistic intention, entity and detail, space and atmosphere, materiality and illumination.
... Buildings turn into landscapes, while landscapes become intimate tactile surfaces as if they were the aged leather of a living creature. Even air tends to take on characteristics of solid matter ; the sky is no longer a void, as it projects a sense of gravity and opacity. Her images accentuate materiality, as if they were intended to be experienced through the skin rather than the eyes." Juhani Pallasmaa