Az W's 'I ♥ ARCHITECTURE' Winners
John Hill
19. October 2016
1st Place: John Fraser, Untitled, Birmingham, Great Britain, April 2016
Architekturzentrum Wien's Photo Award 2016, which goes under the motto "I LOVE ARCHITECTURE," sought photographs of buildings completed within the last fifty years. A jury selected ten winners that are featured here.
If the winner is any indication, the jury was drawn to photos illustrating contrast, particularly in regards to context (the fifth-place winner echoes this approach). In the case of John Fraser's untitled first-place winner, a reflective swoosh (a Gehry?) cuts across the historic context of low-scale brick buildings in Birmingham. As Az W wrote on their Facebook page, "The photo illustrates the transformation of an industrial town into a service industries city and opens up room for different interpretations. What do we see here? And, above all, where are we here?"
All of the winners are on display until 8 November 2016 at Architekturzentrum Wien's Az W Shop, while the first place winner, John Fraser, receives an Eames Plastic Chair by Vitra.
2nd Place: Nora Höglinger, “Watermusic,” Premstätten/Styria, Austria, August 2016
3rd Place: HD Bauer, photo from the group of works “Water Colours,” Frankfurt am Main, Germany, April 2016
4th Place: Petra Panova, “The Hug,” Tokyo, Japan, March 2007
5th Place: Torben Höke, untitled, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2010
6th Place: Elena Georgiou, untitled, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 2016
7th Place Rina Treml, “Stadtüberzug,” Vienna, Austria, 2016
8th Place: Christian Brandstätter, “Casa Invisibile,” northern Slovenia, December 2014
9th Place: Victoria Wakulicz, untitled, Krumbach/Vorarlberg, Austria, May 2016
