WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Eye Camera Window: Takashi Homma on Le Corbusier will be presented at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal. On display is a series of Takashi Homma’s photographs reflecting the photographer’s visual interpretation of the window in Le Corbusier’s architecture, which the CCA and the Window Research Institute originally published in the form of a book in 2019. Homma spoke to us and the CCA about the making of this photography series, packed into which is more than a decade of photographing.

 

 

Between 2002 and 2018, Takashi Homma continually photographed the window as a fundamental element of Le Corbusier’s architecture across Europe and Asia while advancing his own investigations of the photographic medium.

Homma’s interpretations include carefully imposed cuts and deliberate framing that go beyond the act of witnessing a building to convey an experience of architecture. Le Corbusier was himself a photographer, compulsive image collector, and strategist of visual communication who integrated the principles of photography into his architecture. Windows, like photographs, are devices that frame views—shaping the way that we perceive space and mediating the complex relationships between interior and exterior, architecture and landscape.

Eye Camera Window: Takashi Homma on Le Corbusier presents photographic sequences and clusters that present the window as a spatial and perceptual motif in both Le Corbusier and Homma’s work while calling into question the act of seeing. A selection of Le Corbusier’s original drawings from the CCA Collection will also be exhibited, emphasizing his concepts for the treatment of windows and openings to construct views.

 

 

Eye Camera Window: Takashi Homma on Le Corbusier
Exhibition Curator: Louise Désy, CCA
Octagonal gallery, Canadian Centre for Architecture
Through August 15, 2021

 

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Related publication
Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows
By Takashi Homma
Co-published by Window Research Institute, Canadian Centre for Architecture and Koenig Books
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