Hyvönen, Building (with) Pictures - The Confusing Fluency of Architectural Photorealism

Pictures that look like photographs are currently a standard means of presenting architectural projects. The photorealistic verisimilitude of these pictures appears to require no interpretive effort, yet it is also claimed to mislead architectural perceptions. This thesis argues that to understand the architectural import of photorealism, it should not be approached as a stylistic property of finalised renderings but as a central mode of architects' digitalised work: for a user of architects'...