The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles (AIA|LA) announced the recipients of the 2022 AIA|LA Architectural Photography Awards. Fifteen photographers and visual artists were recognized in three categories: 13 Best Image recipients, three Best Rendering winners, and two Best Instagram feeds. Winning images were photographed in built environments across the globe from Weil am Rhein, in Germany, to Dillon Beach in the United States, incorporating diversity of tone, texture and light.
The images transport us to a land of wonder and imagination, the jury said of Scott Lorenzen, Affiliate AIA’s work–three images acknowledged together–and one of the three photographers awarded at the Honor level. While Ryan Gobuty’s Honor Award winner, photographed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was noted for its exquisite portrayal of a harmonious and vivid color palette. The jury commended the third of the Honor Awards, shot by Marcus Peel, in London, UK, for its interplay of the monochromatic colors and the shadows that almost sets this abstract shape in perpetual motion.
The 2022 suite of winning photographs also demonstrate how successfully photographers can reinterpret well known work, offering new ways to see it. Darren Bradley selected William Pereira’s Geisel Library as the subject for The Monolith, one of two of Bradley’s winners in the Best Image category. Jonathan Ducrest’s Wrap the Triomphe considered artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s treatment of the Arc de Triomphe, the icon piece of architecture originally designed by Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin.
A jury composed of Ashok Sinha, architecture photographer; David Montalba, FAIA, founding principal, Montalba Architects; Elizabeth Parker, chief creative officer, Shimahara Visual selected this year’s winners ranging in hierarchy from Honor, Merit and Citation.
To view the images, visit tinyurl.com/APA-Winners-2022.