The series “Sous la lumière II” by Christoph Montebelli describes modernistic and post-modernistic rhythms in the cityscapes of the three largest cities in South America: Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
The series searches for abstract beauty in facades mainly erected in the middle and in the second half of the twentieth century. During these years, steep growth and insatiable demand for new constructions gave modernism and later architectural movements an irretrievable gift.
Daring architects had the chance to experiment with their creativity – Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi, Rino Levi, Mario Roberto Álvares, and many others who left their handwriting on the three metropolises.
The name of the series (which is part of a larger book project) relates to a quote of one of the fathers of modernism, Le Corbusier, according to whom architecture is “a learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light (“L’architecture est le jeu savant, correct et magnifique des volumes assemblés sous la lumière.”)
