Architecture & Design Shortlist

By day, the border wall separating Mexico from the USA looms large, imposing its size, but at night, beneath the stars, it transforms. Harder to see, yet no less present. The photographer explains ‘it becomes a silhouette, a shadow, a dark line of architectural hostility that cuts through the landscape and the silence. The wall rusts, becomes buried, and is interrupted, but its purpose endures: to separate. The photographer notes that ‘this series is not about politics, but about presence. It is about an architecture designed to exclude.’