I do not think to be mistaken if I say that I learned the technique and developed my vision to be an architectural photographer by carrying a large format camera and shooting black and white film.

Of all the films I remember using, I specially remember Kodak Tmax 100 sheet film and the incredibly fabulous Polaroid Type 55 film … It’s been a long time since then and I do surely know now that I did not express myself through black and white images again because I was not able to find a professional application where to fit them and because no digital process could persaude me of evoking the strong presence of the properly exposed and processed silver emulsion.

It was not until I began using Nik Software Silver Efex Pro 2 when I finally discovered that I could feel comfortable again exploring new black and white frames and capturing the energy of the organic simplicity of the picture elements that I constantly seek.

The Berga, Barcelona, Vilà House photographs for architect Agustí Costa gave me the opportunity to add a new meaning to my assignment color images by learning from his comments about how he was inspired by Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House in generating his own project.

I had recently seen Julius Shulman’s Kaufmann House photographs for Richard Neutra and I thought It was the time for me to propose some Vilà House black and white pictures just to experiment and see what happened.

And I could not be happier with the results. Working in black and white has nothing to do with nostalgia: it is pure simplicity and power condensed.