Red as a link between nature and architecture by Lara Giliberto

Lara Giliberto is the Paris-based photographer who with Tomorrow will be brighter studied for Edicola's third issue the influence of red as a tool for connection between architecture and nature.

"This photographic project is the result of the discovery of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse building. Cité is defined as a vertical city where individual spaces are inserted into a common area of interest so that the building itself is a real urban housing situation inspired by the repetition of the individual housing units in series as modules and the relationship between these systems and the surrounding environment. I decided to create a relationship between the images of the building and the surrounding nature, photographing flowers in a serial way either.

Since color is a present and important element in the aesthetics of the building, I chose to photograph only red flowers to establish a further relationship with the architecture itself. Nature so extrapolated from its native context and replicated in the abstraction of serialism is reduced to pure form alongside architecture: nature and architecture seem to speak the same language.

Cité's project is part of the architectural utopia ideas designed to create ideal homes for man. The title of the series therefore refers both to the name of the building itself and its intrinsic meaning".