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The assigned general title of paper-2 is “Representation of an Architectural Detail.” You need to add a subtitle to further define your topic. There are multiple modes of architectural representation such as drawing (freehand or digital), model, installation, photograph, painting, collage, experimental movies, and other material and visual constructs that you can imagine, define and craft. Is architectural representation limited to material types of representations which can only passively re-present (or, repeat) given ideas, or can it approach something mystic or transcendental beyond its material self? Alberto Perez-Gomez’s article exactly demonstrates how the latter understanding is essentially embedded in architectural tradition. An architectural representation is used to visualize (envision) a building form on a certain scale and in a certain proportion following Vitruvius’s venustas and harmony. How do we create, through representation, the architectural form that can bear meanings rather than recycle nihilism of architectural formalism? In this sense, the concept of “architectural representation” should be understood as the “architectonic embodiment” analyzed by Dalibor Vesely. The assigned title asks you to explore the theories on the “form-representation-idea” relationship in architectural design. An architectural form can be built or unbuilt in reality, but it can stand as a meaningful form throughout history, such as Camillo’s “Theater of Memory” that was never built in his lifetime. The Renaissance architects repeatedly interpreted Vitruvius’s theories through drawings and applied their new understandings to designs which were able to communicate with the divine and cosmos. Plato’s concept of chora, embodied by Vitruvius’s “theater”, challenges our habitual understanding of form, re- presentation, and space in modern architecture.