From ELEMENTAL to Emilio Duhart: the Concrete Architecture in Chile through Jakub Sawosko’s Lens


Innovation Center UC - Anacleto Angelini / Alejandro Aravena | ELEMENTAL. Image © Jacob aka /sh_sh_welt/

Innovation Center UC – Anacleto Angelini / Alejandro Aravena | ELEMENTAL. Image © Jacob aka /sh_sh_welt/

From Taiwan to the Netherlands to Uruguay, Jakub Sawosko has extensively been photographing concrete architecture all over the world and displaying them on Instagram as @sh_sh_welt.

After living surrounded and fascinated by post-war concrete architecture in Europe in his early years, Sawosko moved to Taiwan where he eventually realized that Modernism had heavily influenced Taiwan as well. “I felt that [Taiwan’s distinctive style of architecture] deserved more recognition”, explains Jakub in conversation with ArchDaily via Instagram.

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