For Central, photography plays a key role within the discipline of architecture. Photographers do not merely document architecture; they also contribute to our understanding of it and even to its cultural construction. Through inevitably fragmentary readings, photography opens up new narratives, interpretations and ways of approaching projects.

Alongside the widely circulated images of architectural photographer Maxime Delvaux, the exhibition presents the perspectives of three other photographers. Delphine Mathy documents construction processes, freely reinterpreting the genre of construction-site photography. Rory Gardiner, meanwhile, focuses on the complexity of the urban environment. Adrien de Hemptinne makes portraits of the people who inhabit, complement and further shape Central’s architecture. Delvaux himself explores new protocols of representation, bringing Central’s projects into a new light.

This approach stems from a vision of architecture as an intrinsically relational discipline: never autonomous, but always shaped by context, collaboration, references and use. One question runs like a thread through their practice: what forms of architecture can emerge from this shared condition? The work of the four photographers offers a first answer.