These photographs were gathered while travelling through different European cities, including Milan, Frankfurt, Berlin, Madrid and Paris, as well as several places in Portugal. They are connected by a simple habit: looking upwards and observing the city beyond the usual level of the street.

Seen from below, skyscrapers and tall buildings lose part of their conventional identity. Their façades become vertical planes, edges become diagonals and entire volumes are reduced to silhouettes against the open sky. Glass, concrete and metal respond differently to the weather and light, continuously changing the relationship between architecture and atmosphere.

I was not trying to create a complete record of particular buildings or cities. My attention was drawn instead to alignments, intersections, reflections and contrasts — brief compositions that appear when perspective brings several structures together within the same frame.