Event Christina Deluchi and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal: Images of Architecture

Christina Deluchi and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal: Images of Architecture

Discussion

16 November 2025
11am

What is the relationship between architecture and its depiction in photography? Together Christina Deluchi and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal will unpack a series of images about architecture and the city. Moving between Medellín, Tirana, and Bahrain—and various exhibitions, projects, and places—the images explore forms of authorship and collaboration, transformative processes and techniques, urban politics and everyday life in contemporary contexts. Connected by their stories, each image examines the reciprocal relationship between photography and architecture by establishing a dialogue on how such images construct the built environment.

This event is the first in an ongoing series of architecture discussion led by Andrew Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at University of Queensland, and Andrew Leach, Professor of Architectural History at Queensland University of Technology.

  • Partner:

    This event is supported by Queensland University of Technology.

Guest Info
  • Guillermo Fernández-Abascal is a Practice Fellow at the University of Sydney and co-founder of the office GFA2 (Gabriel and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal). Based in Gadigal/Sydney, and Santander in Spain, his recent work destabilises the dichotomy between research and buildings, and includes diagrams, exhibitions, publications, housing, and public buildings across the globe. His collaborative projects include the books Regional Bureaucracy and Analogue Images, the exhibition Bad Language, the Enaire Foundation Building in Santander and Murrin Bridge Preschool and Community Hub in regional New South Wales.

    Christina Deluchi is a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and a PhD Candidate at University of Melbourne. Her research explores the relationship between architecture, politics, and images. Her work on the production of urban identity in Medellín and Tirana has been published in The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Revista de Arquitectura, Interstices, Idea Journal, and Interiority, and exhibited at the Chicago Biennial, the Taubman College of Architecture, and UTS Gallery.

Maxime Delvaux 'Four Car Parks'.

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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