This elective takes as its subject the current fascination in architectural discourse and practice with 'the image'. Each year the elective will focus on a different aspect of architecture's engagement with the image. Previous topics have included: the relation of the discourse on the image to the discourse on ornament; urban advertising images and urban experience; journal publishing in architecture; the media of cross-cultural interaction in architecture; the interlinking of domesticity and urbanism in the representation of architecture. Students will engage with the techniques of presenting images graphically, as well as framing and resourcing critical discussions of topics through research and writing.