ACCIDENTAL ARCHITECTURE • JAMES STOKOE

ACCIDENTAL ARCHITECTURE

The collection of photographs and sculpture on this website represents a more than forty year exploration of architectural and artistic form where chance and its outcomes have a liberating effect on the quality of our physical world. This unintended aesthetic flowering can follow from the passage of time, the forces of nature, the workings of purely pragmatic actions or even the conscious decisions to employ procedures that foster chance or randomness. The photographs often are undertaken as a documentation of places where happenstance and pragmatism has played a role, places such as construction sites and cityscapes or architecture that has been subject to change and the imprint of history. At times, however, they attempt to use the photographic and printing process or photo collage techniques to induce an “accidental architecture” to take form in the space of the studio.

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