PERSPECTIVE AS SYMBOLIC FORM, ONCE AGAIN. Some elements towards a revaluation of perspective and visuality in architecture

Although Panofsky’s arguments have come under criticism for quite some time, they still seem to play a key role in the current disregard to perspective in architectural education. However, it is not clear that the essay expresses a negative conclusion about perspective. Furthermore, abstraction certainly implied the denial of perspective in Painting but, according to the opinion of the most celebrated masters of Modern Movement, not in Architecture.

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