This workshop explores the multiple techniques and tactics of rendering-sketch, visualize, analyze, quantify, synthesize. 3d softwares such as 3DStudio Max (the primary software platform of the workshop) allow the architect to fluidly navigate the constant conception/representation oscillation of the design process. The architectural rendering-whether abstract, analytic, or photo-real-captures the energy of an idea about space, while contemporary rendering techniques have enabled the architect to embed more information, with greater intent, into a single image.