Architectural Visualizations as Methods of Transgression: a Successive Enrichment of the Image

The need of architecture to be visualized is completely inherent to the very core of the architectural territory. Although the use of the term “visualization” is generic enough so as to imply vagueness and conceptual inconsistencies, this seems to be valid only to non architectural audiences and quite precise when referring to architecturally literate communities. Visualizations have not been employed just to entitle visual and pictorial qualities to a seemingly self_sufficient architectonic event. They have often been the vehicle to overcome situations of a broader impact. This paper will present four cases of visualizing architecture, not only as singular acts of architectural illustration but also as generative collective approaches on the issue