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The façade of the Gothic cathedral of Tortosa was built in the 17th century according to the project by Martín Abaria, which was carried out between 1621-1625 and is preserved in the ACTo, and whose study has revealed the origins of its composition. The repositioning and redrawing of the trace allows the comparison with the façade executed through the data obtained from the Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) and whose 3:2 proportions are similar. The analysis of its scaling allows comparison with other Roman basilicas. The compositional basis of the lower body of the Abaria project is very similar to that of Santa Maria in Traspotina (1566-1587) in which Giovanni Vincenzo Casale was involved before becoming the engineer of the Escorial in 1589. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1970s, during the design stage of his first houses, Peter Eisenman developed a parallel investigation into the potential of the model in three-dimensional architectural representation that culminated in the construction of an axonometric model. The new three-dimensional object, which unified the abstraction of axonometry and the materiality of the model, arising from its merely figurative condition, was turned into a representation that, as if a trompe l'oeil, imposed certain perspectives, from which, the perception of the design generated different interpretations. The construction of the axonometric model was more than an isolated mannerist experience, because it implied the confirmation of a representational strategy based on artifice and ambiguity, which can be generalized through photography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]