Radical Architecture of the Immediate past

Featuring work from Nigel Green’s long-term focus on the legacy of utopian modernism. This work is from an ongoing series of architectural and topographic photographs. The photographs have been taken in the U.K, Belgium, Serbia, Poland and France. The images largely document buildings from the 1960s and 1970s. This work reflects diversity in architectural experimentation driven by the ideological aspiration in social and collective thinking. The architecture reflects local or vernacular concerns and coalesces around a shared set of societal principles, radically different from those of the present.

“The buildings and sites that I photograph function as indicators of an uncompleted project, the future oriented goals of a utopian and socially committed thinking, which as Owen Hatherley states, represents ‘a moment of social democracy.”

Nigel Green

Nigel Green is a photographer, artist and lecturer. He has exhibited and published photographic projects that document genres of modernist architecture in the UK and Europe. In 2008 he completed a practice based PhD at the University for the Creative Arts, which looked at the relationship between photography and the representation of modernist architecture.