Room 13: Paul Brouns

Architecture as a Score showcases the photographic work of Paul Brouns. He looks at the city as if it were music and translates architectural structures into rhythmic image compositions. Instead of literally capturing buildings, Brouns uses architecture as a starting point for compositions that focus on rhythm, repetition, light and colour. Windows, balconies, fire escapes and doors thereby function as a form of visual notation.

Although his images often look tight and ordered, they always contain subtle disturbances, such as a shift in pattern, an unexpected repetition or a human presence. In nighttime cityscapes, illuminated windows turn into abstract rhythms, as if watching a silent concert.

With this way of looking at things, Brouns shows that architecture is more than just form and function. His work invites you to slow down and re-experience the city as a dynamic interplay of structure and variation, a hidden score in the everyday.