Talk | Images of Architecture

What is the relationship between architecture and its depiction in photography? Together, Christina Deluchi and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal will unpack a series of images about architecture and the city. Moving between Medellín, Tirana, and Bahrain, and various exhibitions, projects, and places, the images explore forms of authorship, transformation processes, collaborations and techniques, urban politics, and everyday life in contemporary contexts. Connected by their stories, each image examines the reciprocal relationship between photography and architecture by establishing a dialogue on how such images construct the built environment. 

Images in the series by Maxime Delvaux, Rory Gardiner, Filip Dujardin, Max Creasy, Blerta Kambo, Eman Ali, Iwan Baan, Bas Princen, and Dylan Perrenoud.  

This program marks the beginning of an ongoing architecture discussion series led by Andrew Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at University of Queensland, and Andrew Leach, Professor of Architectural History at Queensland University of Technology.

Guillermo Fernández-Abascal is a Practice Fellow at the University of Sydney and co-founder of the office GFA2 (Gabriel and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal). Based in Sydney, Australia, and Santander, Spain, his recent work destabilises the dichotomy between research and buildings, and includes diagrams, exhibitions, publications, housing, and public buildings across the globe. His collaborative projects include the books Regional Bureaucracy (Perimeter Editions, 2022) and Analogue Images (Perimeter Editions, 2024), the exhibition Bad Language (AA, 2025); the Enaire Foundation building in Santander, and the Murrin Bridge Preschool and Community Hub in regional NSW. 

Christina Deluchi is a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and is a PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne. Her research explores the relationship between architecture, politics, and images. Her work on the production of urban identity in Medellín and Tirana has been published in The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics (2023), Revista de Arquitectura, Interstices, idea journal, and Interiority, and exhibited at the Chicago Biennial, the Taubman College of Architecture, and UTS Gallery. 

This event is supported by Queensland University of Technology.