While much has been written about how photography serves architecture, this book looks at how fine-art photographers frame constructed space – from cities to single anonymous rooms. It analyses various techniques used and reveals resonances and rhythms found in the photographs as they occur at different scales, times and settings. 

Photographs become vehicles for thinking about the co-existence between individuals and social groups and their surroundings spaces and settings in the city and the landscape. By considering questions of technique and practice on the one hand, and the formal and aesthetic qualities of photographs on the other, the book opens up new ways of looking at and thinking about architecture and how we relate to our environment.

Professor Hugh Campbell is the Dean of Architecture and Head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin. He co-edited with Rolf Loeber and others Architecture 1600–2000, which is volume 4 of Art and Architecture of Ireland published by Yale University Press in 2014. With Nathalie Weadick of the Irish Architecture Foundation, he curated Ireland's exhibition at the 2008 Venice Biennale, The Lives of Spaces, and he was co-curator with Grafton Architects of the Close Encounter section of the 2018 Venice Biennale.