Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture

“To give the twice as infinity focal point, it brings back the most ideal state of the shape of the architecture. That’s very ironic. It can be a statement and it might be even more beautiful than the finished building—that was my concept.” - Hiroshi Sugimoto

In 2003, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago presented Hiroshi Sugimoto’s exhibition, Architecture, in which this series debuted.

In 1997, Sugimoto was commissioned by the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art. At first, the museum planned to present the 20th-century architectural exhibition At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture, and Sugimoto was originally commissioned to photograph the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as part of the exhibition. Later, he continued to expand the project to include works by celebrated architects, such as Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright.