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A lesser-known yet compelling fragment of Armando Salas Portugal’s body of work is his extensive series of photographs documenting buildings under construction—primarily housing developments, residential complexes, and office buildings in Mexico City.
These black-and-white images, captured using a bellows camera, offer austere and almost solemn portraits of unfinished structures. Rendered with precise perspective and tonal restraint, the photographs depict skeletal frameworks as ghostly presences—monuments not to completion, but to process, suspended in a moment of becoming.
With few exceptions, the scenes are entirely devoid of people. The solitary silhouettes of these buildings rise quietly against the urban backdrop, detached yet monumental, emerging as singular forms within a city caught in a state of transformation.
