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This issue continues Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen’s first monograph published by the magazine in 2013. These 20 works showcase the evolution of their methodology and philosophy towards the link between painting and architecture. As they play with the limits of the architectural surface through explorations in geometry, they invite a consideration of the “architectonic picture” – not as a rigid reproduction but as a method of visualising the self in the world, a point where the physical eye and mind’s eye meet. Besides the houses, pavilions, and more, paintings by the duo allow us to enter their perception of architecture as both sensual and conceptual.