‘I think that photographing a space primarily means registering an idea, a memory, an emotion’. Luisa Lambri, born in Como in 1969 and the recipient of the Leone d’Oro at the 1999 Venice Biennale, has since 1997 been travelling around the world ‘cataloguing’ private houses, museums, schools, courts and palaces.

On show at the Menil Collection are some of her rarer photographs, such as pictures of Neutra’s Strathmore Apartments in Los Angeles and Niemeyer’s Casa das Canoas and Banco Boavista in Rio de Janeiro. On view for the first time are photos of the 1949 house, that Philip Johnson designed for John and Dominique de Menil. E.S.

Until 27.6.2004
Luisa Lambri: Locations 
The Menil Collection
1515 Sul Ross, Houston
T +1-713-5259400
https://www.menil.org