Daniel Mirer Photographer

In my architectural portfolio, “ArchitorSpace” is a constructed word, not unlike the word “Photo-Graphy,” which helps me define my visual critique of architectural spaces. The “ArchitorSpace” photographs display my interest in areas and the banality of urban spaces. These places I photograph become typologies of contemporary post-industrial architectural aesthetics, making the individual appear displaced within the uncanny. I seek locations that are dense with absence purposefully; forgotten deserted (non-sites) are environments that are entirely familiar but reveal no history or functionality and are commonplace within the redundancy of blandness within post-industrial space. 

I resist the common perception of a homogenized architectural space by bringing these details to the fore, employing structural elements as raw material for the composition, and breaking down the components of the buildings and their surroundings into textures, shades, and shapes. I always seek to show the abstract in the formal and the beauty in the banal. The subtleties and technique prompt me to recognize the individual makeup of the depicted environment and its diverse intrinsic textures in the open foreground and background collapse, reducing the structure to a flat and simplified arrangement of pure line and color. By highlighting their form rather than function, I challenge the essence of these non-places. Any attempt to disclose a narrative is thwarted, consequently fetishizing their anonymity. Furthermore, by extracting the space from its ambiguous nature, I am providing these sites with a new, subjective identity separate from pure functionality.

The pictures I create are of spaces in which a building’s facade, alley, or corridor is virtually indistinguishable from another; the viewer sees the repetition and redundancy of surface materials when collapsed into an architectural singularity of banality.  Within my images, the subjects who might otherwise occupy these spaces appear engulfed in the void of here-could-be-anywhere, into the monumental dissolution of space in contemporary architecture.

Concrete Alley, Mexico City, Mexico
Pink Wall, Los Angeles, California
Car Ramps,Cologne, Germany
Blue Building,Los Angeles, California
Looking out onto Street, Cologne, Germany
White Building, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Blue Carport, Mexico City, Mexico
Campus Passageway, Tokyo, Japan
Power Plant White Walls, Atlanta, Gerogia
Air Terminal, New York City
Bavarian Inn, Hamburg, Germany
Storage Building, Brooklyn, New York
Corrugated Sufaces in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Terminal Floor, Mexico City, Mexico
Roadway, Helsinki, Finland
Cables from train platform, Tokyo, Japan
Roof Top, New York, NY
Artist Statement
Open Street in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Café in Budapest, Hungary
Entrances to Parking Lot, Hamburg, Germany
Sundial on Wall, Leiden, Netherlands
Cobblestone Walk, Rome, Italy
Exterior Elevation Budapest, Hungary
Convention Center Column, New York City
Sculpture in Lobby Rome, Italy
Open Street, Mexico
Apartment Parody, Germany
Corrugated Driveway, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Entrances to bomb shelter, Hamburg, Germany
Green Stairs, Tokyo, Japan
Corner, BART Station, San Francisco, California
Staircase, Munich, Germany
Looking Down from Stairs, Tokyo, Japan
Scaffold Covering in Hamburg Germany
Railroad and Buildings, Tokyo, Japan
Roof parking lot Lincoln, Nebraska
Corrugated structure, Utrecht, Netherlands
Building Rooftop, New York City
Cold Water Bath and Shower, Budapest
Space the area offices. New York City
Green Shanty, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Outside staircase, Tokyo, Japan
Finnish Train going South, Finland
Building Loading Dock, Den Haag, Netherlands
Rubble by Lift, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Striped façade in Budapest
Gated Area with Staircase, Tokyo, Japan
Footstep in Budapest
Tokyo Back Alley, Tokyo, Japan
From the Subway Platform, Subway, Japan
Wavy Suface Wall, Mexico City
Green Awning, Atlanta, Georgia
Construction Walkway, Utrecht, Netherlands
Yellowish Lobby, Havana, Cuba
Purple Staircase, Mexico City, Mexico
Powder Blue Room, Havana, Cuba
Time Clock in Office, Havana, Cuba
Open Door,Estonia
Administrador Desk, Mexico City
Buildings Brick Wall Facade, New York City
Berlin TV tower Berlin, Deutschland
Deconstruction Site, Leiden, Netherlands
Derrick in Rotterdam, Netherlands
City Center in Den Haag, Netherlands
Lincoln, Nebraska
Yellow Building, Columbus, Ohio
Building Number Five, Leiden, Netherlands
Barbershop Alley, Nebraska
Architecture in Nebraska
Lobby Entrances, Germany
Escalator and Hallway, NY, New York
Bust in Office, Budapest, Hungary
Parking Area Low Cement Ceiling, Cleveland, Ohio
Convention Center Balcony, New York City
Theater Stage, New York City
Blue Door, Columbus, Ohio
Football Stadium, Columbus, Ohio
Riverdale Basement, Bronx, New York
Tunnels, Food Court, Houston, Texas
Slat Wall, 57th Street & Madison Ave., NY, New York
Record Explosion, NY, New York
New York Tech College, Brooklyn, New York
41st Street Parking Garage, NY, New York
Empire State Building Lobby, NY, New York
Computer Room, NY, New York
Football Stadium Ramp, Columbus, Ohio
Havana Libre Hotel, Havana, Cuba
Havana Libre Hotel Lobby, Havana, Cuba
Wells Fargo Tunnel, Houston, Texas
Lobby @ 9 West 57th Street, New York City
Laundromat, Sunset over Dryers, Columbus, Ohio
Medical Office, Brooklyn, New York
Office Hall Way Dead End, NY, New York
Concrete Alley, Mexico City, Mexico, Pink Wall, Los Angeles, California, Car Ramps,Cologne, Germany, Blue Building,Los Angeles, California, Looking out onto Street, Cologne, Germany, White Building, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico , Blue Carport, Mexico City, Mexico, Campus Passageway, Tokyo, Japan, Power Plant White Walls, Atlanta, Gerogia, Air Terminal, New York City, Bavarian Inn, Hamburg, Germany, Storage Building, Brooklyn, New York, Corrugated Sufaces in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Terminal Floor, Mexico City, Mexico, Roadway, Helsinki, Finland, Cables from train platform, Tokyo, Japan, Roof Top, New York, NY<br /><a href="/content.html?page=3#Architor_Space" target="_top">Artist Statement</a>, Open Street in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Café in Budapest, Hungary, Entrances to Parking Lot, Hamburg, Germany, Sundial on Wall, Leiden, Netherlands, Cobblestone Walk, Rome, Italy, Exterior Elevation Budapest, Hungary, Convention Center Column, New York City, Sculpture in Lobby Rome, Italy, Open Street, Mexico, Apartment Parody, Germany, Corrugated Driveway, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Entrances to bomb shelter, Hamburg, Germany, Green Stairs, Tokyo, Japan, Corner, BART Station, San Francisco, California, Staircase, Munich, Germany, Looking Down from Stairs, Tokyo, Japan, Scaffold Covering in Hamburg Germany, Railroad and Buildings, Tokyo, Japan, Roof parking lot Lincoln, Nebraska, Corrugated structure, Utrecht, Netherlands, Building Rooftop, New York City, Cold Water Bath and Shower, Budapest, Space the area offices. New York City, Green Shanty, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Outside staircase, Tokyo, Japan, Finnish Train going South, Finland, Building Loading Dock, Den Haag, Netherlands, Rubble by Lift, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Striped façade in Budapest, Gated Area with Staircase, Tokyo, Japan, Footstep in Budapest, Tokyo Back Alley, Tokyo, Japan, From the Subway Platform, Subway, Japan, Wavy Suface Wall, Mexico City, Green Awning, Atlanta, Georgia, Construction Walkway, Utrecht, Netherlands, Yellowish Lobby, Havana, Cuba, Purple Staircase, Mexico City, Mexico, Powder Blue Room, Havana, Cuba, Time Clock in Office, Havana, Cuba, Open Door,Estonia, Administrador Desk, Mexico City, Buildings Brick Wall Facade, New York City, Berlin TV tower Berlin, Deutschland, Deconstruction Site, Leiden, Netherlands, Derrick in Rotterdam, Netherlands, City Center in Den Haag, Netherlands, Lincoln, Nebraska, Yellow Building, Columbus, Ohio, Building Number Five, Leiden, Netherlands, Barbershop Alley, Nebraska, Architecture in Nebraska, Lobby Entrances, Germany, Escalator and Hallway, NY, New York, Bust in Office, Budapest, Hungary, Parking Area Low Cement Ceiling, Cleveland, Ohio, Convention Center Balcony, New York City, Theater Stage, New York City, Blue Door, Columbus, Ohio, Football Stadium, Columbus, Ohio, Riverdale Basement, Bronx, New York, Tunnels, Food Court, Houston, Texas, Slat Wall, 57th Street & Madison Ave., NY, New York, Record Explosion, NY, New York , New York Tech College, Brooklyn, New York, 41st Street Parking Garage, NY, New York, Empire State Building Lobby, NY, New York, Computer Room, NY, New York, Football Stadium Ramp, Columbus, Ohio, Havana Libre Hotel, Havana, Cuba, Havana Libre Hotel Lobby, Havana, Cuba, Wells Fargo Tunnel, Houston, Texas, Lobby @ 9 West 57th Street, New York City, Laundromat, Sunset over Dryers, Columbus, Ohio, Medical Office, Brooklyn, New York, Office Hall Way Dead End, NY, New York.