One of the privileges of being an architect turned photographer is that I occasionally have the opportunity to photograph a project that I helped design. Rutherford Crossing Shopping Center, in Winchester, VA, is one example.
Category: Commercial
National Harbor, Maryland
The recent Imaging USA (Professional Photographers of America), was held at the Gaylord Conference Center at National Harbor in Maryland. It’s a beautiful Hotel and Conference Center set on the Potomac River just South of Washington DC. Here are some night time and sunrise photos of the harbor area as photographed from the Virginia shoreline.
The Atheneum
“My rigor also is a search for clarity.This search, for me, begins with the plan. The plan, which seems to have been neglected of late, is in fact the key. The two-dimensional image contains within it the instructions for the three-dimensional object that is the building. Together with the section, it generates the building. While the elevation tends to pictorialize, the plan and the section speak to the architect about spatial ideas. But, of the two, the plan is the most convincing and fundamental expression of architectural ideas. I do believe that buildings should speak. In my work, the use of a specific and internally consistent vocabulary of elements and themes over the years has allowed me a coherent, evolutionary means of expression.”
— Richard Meier. from Eliot Noyes. On Architecture: Lecture by Richard Meier