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Michael Nguyen

Artist | Photographer I Curator I Editor
  
Facades Architecture. Fascination of the Faces of Buildings
Location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Nationality: German
Biography: “Michael Nguyen is a photographic poet whose lens is trained on the small and ordinary, but through his subjective perspective, he transforms them into something extraordinary, imbuing them with a new soul. His photography is a masterful... MORE
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Facades Architecture. Fascination of the Faces of Buildings
Copyright Michael Nguyen 2024
Updated Aug 2022
Topics Architecture, Art, Design, Feature, Journalism, Photography, Travel
Summary
In architecture, the term facade refers to the outwardly visible wall surfaces of a building that communicate with the viewer and tell stories. For Michael Nguyen, buildings are lively, dynamic sculptures that show the viewer five facades, four side walls and the roof.
In architecture, the term facade refers to the outwardly visible wall surfaces of a building, including windows, doors and the likes. Materials are often concrete, glass, wood, brick or masonry made of sand-lime bricks. But for Michael Nguyen, they are not just that inanimate materials or elements. They are like the face of a human, like the shape of body, or the clothes, which communicate with the other humans and tell stories.

That’s why in most of his photographs, Nguyen does not show an overall view of a building, but a look at the details and particularities. Just like when we approach a person and have a chance to look closer, we see their beautiful eyes, we hear their unique voice from those open lips, or sometimes just an interesting pattern of the dress they wear attracts us.

With these settings in mind, look at the photos of Nguyen. Buildings are not static objects with five facades, four side walls and the roof. They are lively, dynamic sculptures. The windows are their eyes, that reveal a part of their soul. The open doors are talking with us, inviting us to come in, to hear their inner stories. And the graphic layout of bricks, of glass, of wood or whatever the genuine architects create are their eye-catching clothes, which make our cities, our urban spaces more beautiful, more vibrant.

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