Skill in simulating the future city

摘要

Recent correspondence in The Architectural Review has discussed the unreal world of architectural photography, with particular reference to the absence of people and the presentation of buildings as purely . abstract forms - a debate which also took place in the AJ two decades ago (AJ 25.7.79, 1.8.79). But if the architect's, or architectural journalist's, post facto depiction of reality is manipulated and distorted in the cause of PR, what of the representation of future reality, the images of urban or architectural designs to be consumed by lay people?