Optical architecture. Interplay between perspective and space design

Abstract

Perspective and architecture is regarded in this paper throughout Quadratura’s simulated space. This uptake into baroque architectural culture and science seeks for spatial representation as a challenge capable of creating new assumptions over tectonic reality. Provided by perspective, the Quadratura by Gonçalves Sena, at the altar’s vault in Santarém’s Cathedral, transforms real space proposing a new impression of the architectural image. This whole artistic complex, bel composto, intertwining constructed and represented architectures reaches a cohesive unity among the various elements in which the viewer has the feeling of being immersed into a complex spatial product.