ABSTRACT
Visual representations have come to play an increasingly important role in architecture, at least since the late Middle Ages in Europe. Discussions of visual representation in architecture for the most part have emphasized drawings as evidence of the elaboration of various ideas, as formal logics or as autonomous representations of archi tecture as creative art (Graves, 1977; Lotz, 1977; Porter, 1979; Silvetti, 1982). The relation of visual representation to social prac tice and the question of what types and roles of visual representation are associated with what forms of practice and what architectural actors has received considerably less attention (Silvetti, 1982).
