Perspective and illusion in the representation of architectural space are explored at RIBA

Curated and designed by architect Sam Jacob Studio, RIBA’s exhibition ‘Disappear Here’ explores how perspective drawing has been applied to the art of building, and how it has been as a tool to evoke illusory architectural spaces. Original drawings from the RIBA Collections and others on loan from Drawing Matter are displayed in a setting that plays with visitors’ own perspective.

“Since its invention in the fifteenth century, perspective has been a fundamental tool in the way we imagine space and design architecture”, says Sam Jacob. “But perspective is also a kind of tyranny too, forcing its own logic onto the worlds we create. This commission gave us the opportunity to explore how perspective has not only been used to illustrate the world but also how it creates and organises the world. For this installation we wanted to create a space where visitors can experience the essentially illusory nature of perspective and question the making and breaking of rules”.

‘Disappear Here – On Perspective and Other Kinds of Space’
RIBA, London W1
2 May – 7 October 2018

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