These striking images from the „Bildbauten“ series by artist and architect Philipp Schaerer depict architecture of austere elegance, material innovation and radical form. However, these are not photographs of actual built works, but rather digitally created fictional architecture that at the same time seems recognizably plausible and perplexingly ambiguous.
Description of the series from the artist's website:
"The series of images with the title „Bildbauten“ deals with the effect and the claim to credibility of images of architecture that appear to be photographs. It further questions the medium “photograph” as a documentary piece of evidence depicting reality.
Frontal views of fictional architectures serve as an example. By means of their exaggerated and orchestrated way of representation, they model themselves on the object-like appearance and the formal language of contemporary architecture in a rather ironic way. All images try to reproduce a reality. They are not a photograph; instead, they were newly designed and constructed from scratch by means of image synthesis and digital image editing."
