Forgery and Narrative in Architecture Design Communication

Although in the wake of the tradition of photomontage and collage, the com- munication Alberto Campo Baeza and Raphaël Gabrion adopted to present their architectural proposal for a new facility building for the Louvre in Liévin demonstrates an innovative connota- tive power of intertextual elements add- ed to the basic renderings. In particular, artworks and cinema-referred elements added to the perspective renderings are used to unfold their semantic range, to orient the reception and to discuss on the threshold between fictive and scien- tific, where forgery can be paradoxically used to tell the truth.