Form and materiality

I’ve been thinking about the form and materiality of some of the obstructions. I have actually been interested in industrial forms and structures for a long time, and it will come as no surprise that the typologies of Bernd and Hilla Becher have had a significant influence on me. Below are some of the pictures of structures I’d previously collected together.

I probably romanticise these forms in part because my father worked as a civil engineer, and his father was a Clerk of the Works on post-war government building programmes in the middle-east. When I was born, and my father was just starting out in the industry, he had to spend a lot of time living and working in lighthouses around the British coast, so lighthouses feature a lot as a visual motif in my family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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