Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Reproducing reality - a psychological origin of the technological visualisation of space? -- Neo-formalism: The technological and social evolution of visual representation and the emergence of contemporary optics and architecture -- PART I Perspective -- 1 Envisioning geometry: Architecture in the grip of perspective -- 2 Desargues' oeuvres: On perspective, optics and conics -- 3 Galileo's limit: Mechanical sciences' technologies of sight and the translation of analogical representations into diagrammatic illustrations -- PART II Photography -- 4 The transformative interface: Fragmentation, process and construction in the photographic representation of architecture -- 5 'The great publicist of modern building': Photography and architecture in the inter-war years -- 6 Photography and architecture: From technical vision to art and phenomenological (re)vision -- PART III Film -- 7 Absorbing cinematic modernism: From the Villa Savoye to the Villa Arpel -- 8 Fragmented fluidity: A possible future for spatial theory and praxis in filmic form -- 9 Intersecting frames: Film + architecture -- PART IV Digital technologies -- 10 Hyperreality, vision and architecture -- 11 Rebooting spaceship earth: Astrospatial visions for architecture and urban design -- 12 Leveraging nature to envision (functional) space: An architecture of machinic abduction -- Index