“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light,” Le Corbusier wrote in his 1923 manifesto Towards a New Architecture. The same can be said of the architectural photography of Hélène Binet, the 2015 recipient of the Julius Shulman Photography Award whose work is now on view at WUHO Gallery’s “Hélène Binet: Fragments of Light” through March 29. Over the past 25 years, Binet has worked closely with the highest profile architects — Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, and Peter Zumthor, to name a few — photographing their work, as well as historic works by the likes of Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, and Sverre Fehn. Eschewing the distractions of color, the Franco-Swiss photographer’s stark black-and-white imagery focus entirely on the interplay that architects stage between structure (Le Corbusier’s “masses”) and light, highlighting the entrypoints through which the sun can penetrate an interior and travel within a space, as well as light’s selectivity in illuminating certain surfaces while neglecting others. “Kapelle fur den heiligen Bruder Klaus 03,” 2009, a photograph of Peter Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Field Chapel outside of Cologne “Kolumba 01,” 2007, a photograph of Peter Zumthor’s Kolumba ...
“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light,” Le Corbusier wrote in his 1923 manifesto Towards a New Architecture. The same can be said of the architectural photography of Hélène Binet, the 2015 recipient of the Julius Shulman Photography Award whose work is now on view at WUHO Gallery’s “Hélène Binet: Fragments of Light” through March 29. Over the past 25 years, Binet has worked closely with the highest profile architects — Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, and Peter Zumthor, to name a few — photographing their work, as well as historic works by the likes of Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, and Sverre Fehn. Eschewing the distractions of color, the Franco-Swiss photographer’s stark black-and-white imagery focus entirely on the interplay that architects stage between structure (Le Corbusier’s “masses”) and light, highlighting the entrypoints through which the sun can penetrate an interior and travel within a space, as well as light’s selectivity in illuminating certain surfaces while neglecting others. “Kapelle fur den heiligen Bruder Klaus 03,” 2009, a photograph of Peter Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Field Chapel outside of Cologne “Kolumba 01,” 2007, a photograph of Peter Zumthor’s Kolumba ...