Bernd & Hilla Becher: Architecture

The domestic buildings and industrial structures, uniformly composed within the frame, are presented as studies of utilitarian sculpture. As Hilla Becher has said of the couple’s architectural subjects, “They are functional, and they reflect what they do.”

Black and white photograph of a house facade

Black and white photograph of a cooling tower

Black and white photograph of a large multi-storied grain elevator

Black and white photograph of a house facade

black and white photograph of a lime kiln

black and white photograph of a water tower

black and white photograph of a house facade

Bernd & Hilla Becher: Architecture

The domestic buildings and industrial structures, uniformly composed within the frame, are presented as studies of utilitarian sculpture. As Hilla Becher has said of the couple’s architectural subjects, “They are functional, and they reflect what they do.”

Black and white photograph of a house facade — Framework House: Heuslingstraße 342, Oberheuslingen, 1970

gelatin silver print, 36-1/2 x 22-3/8 inches (framed) [92.7 x 59.4 cm]

Black and white photograph of a cooling tower — Cooling Tower [Kühlturm], Mons, Borinage, B, 1967

gelatin silver print, 36-1/2 x 22-3/8 inches (framed) [92.7 x 59.4 cm]

Black and white photograph of a large multi-storied grain elevator — Grain Elevator [Getreideheber], Coolus, Châlons-en-Champagne, F, 2006

gelatin silver print, 22-3/8 x 36-1/2 inches (framed) [59.4 x 92.7 cm]

Black and white photograph of a house facade — Framework House: Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 1, Niederfischbach, 1962

gelatin silver print, 36-1/2 x 22-3/8 inches (framed) [92.7 x 59.4 cm]

black and white photograph of a lime kiln — Lime Kiln [Kalköfen], Ten Boer, NL, 1968

gelatin silver print, 19-1/8 x 22-7/8 inches (framed) [48.6 x 58.1 cm]

black and white photograph of a water tower — Water Tower [Wasserturm], Herve/Liège, B, 1971

gelatin-silver print, 36-1/2 x 22-3/8 inches (framed) [92.7 x 59.4 cm]

black and white photograph of a house facade — Framework House: Oststraße 16, Freudenberg, 1971

gelatin silver print, 36-1/2 x 22-3/8 inches (framed) [92.7 x 59.4 cm]

Black and white photograph of a house facade

Bernd & Hilla BecherFramework House: Heuslingstraße 342, Oberheuslingen

1970

gelatin silver print, 36-1/2 x 22-3/8 inches (framed) [92.7 x 59.4 cm]

Black and white photograph of a cooling tower

Bernd & Hilla BecherCooling Tower [Kühlturm], Mons, Borinage, B

1967

gelatin silver print, 36-1/2 x 22-3/8 inches (framed) [92.7 x 59.4 cm]

Black and white photograph of a large multi-storied grain elevator

Bernd & Hilla BecherGrain Elevator [Getreideheber], Coolus, Châlons-en-Champagne, F

2006

gelatin silver print, 22-3/8 x 36-1/2 inches (framed) [59.4 x 92.7 cm]

Black and white photograph of a house facade

Bernd & Hilla BecherFramework House: Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 1, Niederfischbach

1962

gelatin silver print, 36-1/2 x 22-3/8 inches (framed) [92.7 x 59.4 cm]

black and white photograph of a lime kiln

Bernd & Hilla BecherLime Kiln [Kalköfen], Ten Boer, NL

1968

gelatin silver print, 19-1/8 x 22-7/8 inches (framed) [48.6 x 58.1 cm]

black and white photograph of a water tower

Bernd & Hilla BecherWater Tower [Wasserturm], Herve/Liège, B

1971

gelatin-silver print, 36-1/2 x 22-3/8 inches (framed) [92.7 x 59.4 cm]

black and white photograph of a house facade

Bernd & Hilla BecherFramework House: Oststraße 16, Freudenberg

1971

gelatin silver print, 36-1/2 x 22-3/8 inches (framed) [92.7 x 59.4 cm]