Images © Edwin Seda
Edwin Seda in collaboration with a French based architecture firm Patrick Schweitzer Architects, created a series of photographic essays that captured the Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Design in Kigali, Rwanda few years ago. Architecture works with natural light to bring illumination to projects depends on the purpose of various projects. Seda’s work on the Kigali school of architecture explores light as a medium for illuminative transformation, a kind that only materializes on completed buildings with spaces following seasonal change.
Aerial view of the architecture school seen at night
In an effort to find a value in architecture that goes beyond the human touch, architect and photographer Edwin Seda through his work established the fact that photography is the epitome of human touch. It has always been an inspiration for Edwin Seda to dress up, a somewhat self-contradiction too, as the images explore architecture within Kigali as a vulnerable and dramatically resilient concept, persuaded by light and the lens as a third dimension.
Main entrance with light falling on the building under the shade
Following the different in construction narratives of optimism and the basic undeserving of good and bad weather, happiness and expressive sadness, busy and leisurely schedules, so Edwin Seda’s images are in constant pursuance of the narrative of light and human experience, explored through internal and external spaces and although sometimes somewhat accidental, the images are fantastically honest in the way they portray light and space, just the way we perceive the spaces we walk in.
Architecture is created to work with natural light but is never really in control of this aspect
Architecture school at Kigali Institute of Technology
Edwin Seda has been trying to find a sense in architecture that perhaps goes beyond the human touch
Seda’s work on the Kigali school therefore explores light as a medium for spatial transformation
Interior view showing artificial light and natural light converging
The images explore architecture within Kigali as a vulnerable and dramatically resilient concept
This series has been done in a recent partnership with upcoming French based firm Patrick Schweitzer Architects
Night image with lit facade play of light
The images are persuaded by light and the lens as a third dimension
