Architect Photographer
One practice, two disciplines. Buildings drawn and built; the same spaces and the world around them, photographed. A single author working between the plan and the print.
01 · Work
Architecture
Selected projects where I led design and delivery. Each entry pairs the drawing with the photograph of the finished space.
A culinary academy set against the Piazza Grande in Locarno, where the slow, communal rituals of Ticino cooking are given an architecture. A field of precast umbrella columns carries a single continuous hall, each column a three-hinged arch splaying into a thin shell canopy.
Read first as an ensemble of identical bays, then up close as individual, self-supporting figures.
An extension to the Brüggli school settlement in Romanshorn, set on the communal square of a 1970s estate. Classrooms, shared rooms and sheltered ways are woven as small interventions into the surroundings.
The grounds become a place for children to learn, explore and discover.
A study of compact apartment plans for a row of small dwellings in Bern. A shared arcade (Laubengang) and a graded threshold from public to private give the small units a generous communal life.
Each home its own room while sharing the access and the street facade.
02 · Work
Photography
Image-first work: commissioned architectural sets and personal series. Captioned by name and year.
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2023 · Personal
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2021 · Commissioned
03 · Studio
About
archilotl is the practice of Dejan Spasojević, an architect and photographer based in Winterthur. The two disciplines are not a sideline to each other. They are one way of looking. A building is designed, drawn and detailed; then it, and the situations around it, are photographed with the same attention to light, edge and proportion.
Work is deliberately scarce and slow. A handful of buildings, a handful of series. Each project is documented from the first line of the plan to the final frame, so the drawing and the photograph can be read side by side. Commissions are taken for architecture, for photography, or for both.
04 · Contact
Tell me a little about the building, the brief, or the series. I read every message and reply personally.
Contact
ID-1 · scale 1:1 (print)