From the Shut Your Aperture archive (2014): this series and contributor remarks reflect their original publication period.

Rêves d’urbanisme by Mathieu Coquerelle

Photo series Rêves d’urbanisme by Mathieu Coquerelle.

The serie “Rêves d’urbanisme” (Dreams of urbanism) details architectural elements that surround us and toward which we usualy don’t look up. It’s aiming to aesthesize what could at first glance seems raw, for some a bit disgracious, via the extraction of buildings’ pieces with a geometrical and repetitive aspect. That extraction brings out the structural patterns in architecture, making us bounce from lines to lines until we dream of them as they endlessly duplicate. Says Mathiu.

Grid of repeating windows in black and whiteSave

Diagonal architectural chevronsSave

Repeating exterior building panelsSave

Curved ribs of a modern structureSave

Stacked curved building sectionsSave

Receding pattern of ceiling panelsSave

Angular facade pattern in black and whiteSave

Geometric rooftop structures viewed aboveSave

Intersecting bands on a building facadeSave

Diagonal lines across a pale facadeSave

Repeating angled windows on a tall buildingSave

Grid of raised rectangular concrete formsSave

Stepped building facade in black and whiteSave

Array of angular rooftopsSave