Parallax: Architectural Visualisation Now

Parallax: Architectural Visualisation Now

The days when architectural propositions were represented solely by hand drawings are long gone. Over the past century, the way we represent architecture has evolved from hand-drawing to computer-aided drafting, to building information modelling, and now to AI-driven image generation and worldbuilding. But perhaps the most significant change of all has come not with the tools we use to make architectural images, but in the role that they play: architectural visualisation is now the primary medium through which we imagine our cities, their values and their potential. In the argument for the future, it is our lingua franca.

In this richly illustrated book, Andrei Dolnikov and Paul Loh survey 14 world-leading architectural visualisation practitioners to determine the state of the art. Drawing on decades of teaching and practice, their discussions explore how architectural visualisation shapes the conversation around our cities, enabling broader public engagement while blurring disciplinary boundaries across architecture, technology, film, digital art, and experiential design. They reveal how expert practitioners craft and deploy their visualisations for maximum effect, how they situate their work within its social and cultural context, and where they believe their future lies in the wake of AI’s burgeoning power.

Parallax: Architectural Visualisation Now paints a collective portrait of architectural visualisation as both a creative practice and a cultural force at a moment of profound technological transition. It also demonstrates that, while it is often used as a tool of persuasion, architectural visualisation holds radical potential as a means to imagine alternative futures and ways of living.

Featured practices: Beauty and The Bit, BINYAN, Factory Fifteen, Gabriel Saunders, HISM, Inferstudio, HUSH, Liam Young, Luxigon, MILINSKI, Pico Velásquez, Pureblink, Space Popular, Xcessive Aesthetics.

204 pages, hardcover, 29 x 23.5 cm
Texts: Paul Loh and Andrei Dolnikov
Copy Editing: Belinda Nemec
Page Proofing: Claire McGregor
Design: Matthew Walker
Year: 2026 
ISBN: 9781922601445
Publisher: Uro Publications, Naarm/Melbourne