Half-Finished Architecture (With Plenty Of Scaffolding) Is Surprisingly Beautiful

Living in New York, scaffolding and quasi-completed buildings are a regular part of my environment. I once heard the "fact" You can't stand on a single block in Manhattan without seeing some form of construction. Whether this is true or not, I barely consider construction these days—it's omnipresent. Thus, when I noticed Grant Mudford's exhibition Buildings, it forced me to reconsider the overlooked beauty of incompleted architecture and forget the cacophony of jack-hammers plaguing my commute.

The exhibition, which closes this Sunday at the Woodbury University of Architecture in Los Angeles, focuses on twork Mudford finished in the 1970s—mostly industrial snapshots of partially-finished buildings from around LA. Not all have scaffolding, but each image illustrates the embryonic stages of various design projects.

The galllery show coincides with Mudford's receiving the Excellence in Photography Award from the Julius Shulman Institute at Woodbury University. Take a look at some of Mudford's work below—construction has never looked so alluring.

For more on Grant Mudford visit the Woodbury website.

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h/t Gizmodo

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