The gridded facades of 20th-century skyscrapers by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier are recalled from memory for this series of prints by Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune.
Image of Lever House by Skidmore, Owing & Merrill
On show at new Tokyo design festival Designart last week, the 12 images ? collectively titled Faciem ? zoom in on the regimented facades of pioneering towers like Mies' 1958 Seagram Building in New York and Skidmore Owings & Merrill's 1974 Sear's Tower in Chicago.
Each image is made up of hundreds of layers of details created on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and the series took a full-time team of three from the Stockholm architecture and design studio a year to complete.
Image of Seagram Building by Mies van der Rohe Studio co-founders MÃ¥rten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune said the idea for the series stemmed from their interest in abstract art and its impact on architecture's modernism movement.
"We are really interested in abstract, minimal art," Claesson told Dezeen at the opening of the exhibition, which took place at Tokyo's 360° Gallery.
Image of Continental Center III by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White
"Architecture is not art and art is not architecture. But it is possible to find art in architecture and architecture in art," added the studio.
"It's easy to imagine that architects Mies van der Rohe or Oscar Niemeyer would have been influenced by the works of artists Agn...