Minimalist architecture celebrated in these stunning photos

If you’re on Instagram, you’re familiar with the artfully arranged tableaus of an “influencer’s” breakfast table, or the not-candid candid portraits of a suspiciously beautiful person frolicking in paradise, or the abstract visions of a section of a building that have come to dominate popular imagery.

We’re particularly interested in the latter, because taking photographs of architecture is not as simple as going point-and-click, and is, in fact, an art. Taking it a step further, isolating a sunlit corner of a building, or the particular way a wall curves, or surprising geometries creates new ways of looking and appreciating the built environment.

This appreciation was what photography resource EyeEm and We And The Color, a design blog, were after when they put out a call for photos that capture the beauty of minimalism in architecture.

A week and 45,000 submissions later, 20 winners were selected. Here are the top three photos, handpicked by German photographer Matthias Heiderich, including a shot of Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI museum in Italy. Peep the rest over on EyeEm’s blog.

Photo by Urban Poetry via EyeEm

Photo by Patryk Kuleta via EyeEm

Photo by Georgij Dorofeev via EyeEm

Via: The Spaces, We And The Color