Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design

Photorealistic Computer Generated Representations as a Means of Visual Communication of Architectural Schemes in the Contemporary Culture

“…It has also been argued that within a specific cultural context, people become habituated to culturally common styles of depiction in representational pictures.This aspect of realism has been a frequent subject of art literature.The confirmation of these theories comes from the history of pictures [4] and architectural representations [2].They show that the dominant standard of representational pictures in different times and in different cultural circles is not the same.…”

“…Architects used them for foreseeing buildings during the design process, as a design aid; developers use them to show how a buildings will look like to potential clients; historians use them to reconstruct ancient buildings and show the feeling of being there in the past and so on.Two main, yet diverging forms of representations are technical and final representations [1].Technical representations are practical drawings, which serve the practice of the construction industry and craftsmen and they define the design by means of precise geometry. Final representations, also often referred to as artist's impressions [2], which are the subject of this research are high prestige carefully crafted and the most 'artful' of all representations.These representations, either in the form of hand drawings or computer generated representations communicate the external three-dimensional visual appearance of development and its impact on the existing urban context.…”

From Evangelistic Bureaucrat to visionary developer: The changing character of the master plan in Britain

“…There had been competitions for building design since the nineteenth century (Giddings & Horne, 2002) but Heseltine's vision was much broader. In fact he was proposing that architectural competitions could be used to re-plan large areas of cities.…”

Radion tunneling in modified theories of gravity

“…It has been shown that such a scalar degree of freedom can play the role of the stabilizing field for appropriate choices of the underlying F (R) model [20,21]. It is important to analyze the exact nature of the resulting radion potential to explore whether there exists a metastable minimum for the radion from which it can tunnel and leads to an instability of the braneworld [48][49][50][51][52]. In this paper, we aim to determine the radion tunneling in the presence of higher curvature gravity in the bulk.…”