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Honored in June by AIA Michigan with the first edition of an eponymous award, Balthazar Korab photographed Modernist architecture in stark, imposing ways that translated distance and self-assured authority into heroism.

Famed architectural photographer Balthazar Korab was the first recipient of the AIA Michigan honor named after him—the Balthazar Korab Award. The Hungarian-born, Detroit-based photographer received the award at the annual AIA Michigan Celebration of Architecture conference in June. The award recognizes an individual’s significant efforts and contributions to architecture and the arts. Heroic, distant, aloof, but immensely powerful, Modernist architecture as documented by Korab in stark black and white reflected the pristine visions of the future created by the canonical designers (Mies, Corbusier, Saarinen) he documented.

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