Barcelona-based architect Federico Babina has commemorated 33 well-known architects—among the honored are Charles Eames, Norman Foster, Frank Lloyd Wright and Rem Koolhaus—in illustrated portrait series titled "Archiportrait." The illustrations present themselves as mini puzzles featuring famed staircases, window panes, support structures, entire buildings and more. In short, any renowned architectural form you can think of is hidden with these faces. While we've cracked (parts of) nine portraits for you, there are still 24 left open for your own interpretations.
The illustrations were meant to depict elements of the architects' work in true-to-reality expressions, as well as portray some insight into their personalities. "Every little detail is a key component of the whole mosaic," Babina says, as quoted in a write-up from Dezeen. "I tried to develop an expressive and allusive abstraction in which I combined planar structures with three-dimensional shapes to achieve a kind of metaphysical expression."
My favorite: Kazuyo Sejima's portrait, whose hair mimics the curves of her Serpentine Gallery Pavilion design from 2009 and outfit sports the same haphazard window pattern of the Zollverein School of Management and Design:
To see a full archive of Babina's illustrations, visit his website.
Via Dezeen
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