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Architectural visualization and sex. A level playing field?

No. 20 (2017-01-01)
  • María Novas Ferradás
https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq20.2017.03

Abstract

Is architectural visualization set on a leveled playing field? Are there sex related biases in this discipline. What does it mean to include the sex perspective in architectural visualization? CGI in architecture, known as visualization of architecture, rendering, or archViz, is considered to be an efficient way of communicating architecture and has come to be defined as “pornography for architects”. Rendering looks to give praise to our architectural fantasies through a very carefully made aesthetic work, it invites us to consume happy architecture. It is the representation of an ideal, the evolution of which still requires an understanding based on sex.

Keywords: architecture, archViz, visualization, sex, CGI, rendering, equality

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