A selection from the series ELEVATION
Photographs taken within the grounds of the University of Southampton Highfield campus, between 2009 and 2012.
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
Louis Kahn
Elevation:
The height of something above a given or implied place, e.g. sea level
A raised area
Nobleness or grandeur; loftiness of thought
A scale drawing of the external face of a building or structure
The external face of a building or structure
A dancer's ability to jump high
(Roman Catholic Church) The lifting up of the Host at Mass
The angle between the horizontal and the line from the object to the observer's eye (the line of sight)
(Linguistics) A change from a pejorative meaning to a positive meaning
(Psychology) A pleasant moral emotion, the opposite of disgust
Mike Chisholm 2013
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