Amy Denecker
In 2016, Places magazine published an article titled "Unforgetting Women Architects: From the Pritzker to Wikipedia". My task, was to give this nearly decade-old article a print layout, to create images to accompany the text, and to set the type in a way that would make it both legible and appealing to a wider audience.
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I began by setting up my grid, selecting my fonts, and flowing in some of the text. At this stage, I also started playing with the pull quotes. My goal was to see how the pages were laying out so I could prepare the images.
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I knew the images would breathe life into the presentation, but I was at a loss as to what exactly they would be, especially in light of the historical focus of the article.
On a whim, I decided to take some photographs of tiny, metal models of architectural landmarks and I liked the direction. I imaged these enlarged on the page to show the details of their structure.
But it wasn't until I revisited the online article that the fully-realized, final concept came into focus.
In that article, I saw the photo of Denise Scott Brown. Her stance reminded me of the shadow being cast by the Eiffel Tower model in my photographs, and it made me wonder if I could infuse images of these women into the shadows of the iconic buildings.
In the end, it came together in this eight-page article.
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With that in mind, I found pictures of famous women architects and set to work integrating their images into the shadows of the photos I had taken for the article.