Romain Laprade’s Forgotten Architecture

French photographer Romain Laprade captures overlooked urban architecture, treating buildings as time capsules. His series Heliopolis documents a naturist city built in the 1970s by architect François Lopez in Agde, southern France, photographed empty at dusk. Nation focuses on Paris’s RER station Nation, a nearly intact 1960s futuristic design. Phoenix surveys mid-century modern architecture in Phoenix, Arizona, blending Palm Springs and Los Angeles styles. Roma Moderna explores residential districts in Rome—Parioli, Vigna Clara, Flaminio, EUR, Camilluccia—where a rising middle class commissioned warm, exuberant modernist homes in the 1960s-70s. Laprade’s work refuses to hierarchize subjects by fame, valuing historical density and resistance to selective urban amnesia.