We visited Taller Bofill in March 2025. We were in Barcelona scouting locations for our photography workshop with RCR Arquitectes, which took place later in the year and will happen again this fall. We had reached out to the studio and were able to visit for a couple of hours. We had our two sons with us, so we parked them in the courtyard. The experience was quite chill; we were free to roam around. We mostly didn’t use tripods, so we were exploring with our cameras.
The office space was quiet, like a cathedral, though people were talking in teams. We didn’t move anything. This is how we would prefer to make photographs of architecture—less like a magazine and more about how you could live your life. We are looking to heighten that aspect, so there is a dramatic excess of reality; in an ideal world, we would like to make things more imperfect.
We shot one of their sitting rooms, but we needed to move because they had a meeting. This was one of our favorite spaces. The Spanish light really helped; it was moody, but so brilliant. It allows you to read the volumes and shapes. Everything is so tactile.
Good architecture is transcendental; it gives you goose bumps. We love the architecture in Spain and Portugal because it is simple and humble, not so precious. We like to travel, so we love to do international shoots.
For us, creatively, it’s always about exploring interesting new places. This also means we like seeing older stuff. For example, we’ve started a series in Canada where we’re revisiting buildings ten years after they opened. It’s a study of how buildings age. We’re also exploring a more photojournalistic way of documentation beyond the clean magazine shots you see from us. This is how we approached our afternoon at Taller Bofill.
Architecture is our obsession, so if you show us a nice building, we are all over it.
As told to Jack Murphy.
