Art
Unique Homes
BY ANGELA MATUA
AMATUA@QNS.COM
Architect Rafael Herrin-Ferri has tra-versed
Queens since 2012 to capture
images of unique low-rise homes, and
hundreds of his photographs are pre-sented
in an exhibit at The Architectural
League of New York.
“All the Queens Homes” showcase
273 of the more than 5,000 photographs
Herrin-Ferri has taken as he explored
approximately one third of the borough’s
neighborhoods. The exhibit will be open
Fridays from Oct. 20 through Dec. 15
from 2 to 6 p.m. at 594 Broadway, Suite
607. Entrance is free.
The project is ongoing and Herrin-
Ferri started the photographic survey
to capture the wildly different housing
stock found in the “World’s Borough.”
“All the Queens Homes” is described
as “an investigation into the (in)formal
qualities of the borough’s attached,
semi-detached and detached houses
and small apartment buildings, explor-ing
how they reflect the incredible
diversity of the borough’s population,
often regarded as the most ethnically
and linguistically diverse place in the
world.”
Herrin-Ferri visited 34 neighbor-hoods
to take photos of the façades,
side elevations and distinct features of
273 homes. While 259 of the photo-graphs
highlight unique homes, 14 of
the photos are blown up to highlight
interesting details.
The photographs are installed by
neighborhood in alphabetical order and
the titles Herrin-Ferri gave to each photo
are described as “part academic, part
broker listing, part New York Magazine
caption.”
Herrin-Ferri is a Spanish-born architect
who was raised in Ithaca, N.Y. He cur-rently
works at Studio Joseph as a senior
architect and lives in Sunnyside with his
wife and daughter.
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“Palladian Fantasy Condo on
Parking Plinth”
“Eclectic Row”
Photos by Rafael Herrin-Ferri
