Marking the 80th birthday of architect Ricardo Bofill last December, photographer Sebastian Weiss recently captured the designer's iconic La Muralla Roja in Calp, Spain. The housing project references popular architecture of the Mediterranean and was inspired by the tradition of the casbah. The striking colors that cover the outer and inner facades are selected to both contrast nature and complement its purity.
Name: Chinese Blue
Photographer: Sebastian Weiss
Location: Beijing
Year: September 2018
Name: Monolicious
Photographer: Sebastian Weiss
Location: Milan
Year: 2018
Name: City of Light
Photographer: Sebastian Weiss
Location: Lisbon
Year: March 2019
For Hamburg-based photographer Sebastian Weiss, buildings are dramatis personae, or "characters". Inspired by Ash Amin and Stephen Graham's 1997 book The Ordinary City, in which the authors described the city as the "theater of life", this photo-essay of architectural landmarks in the French cities of Arcueil, Nanterre, and Paris examines the personalities of public buildings.
