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Buildings are also assemblies of invisible dynamics that play just as much a role in shaping the physical world as the parts of it that can be seen. These invisible dynamics include environmental phenomena such as conduction, convection, radiation, and evaporation. Through these phenomena, buildings and the materials that make them up, interact with, and become part of, the world around them. These phenomena are primarily sensed though the skin rather than the eyes – through touch rather than vision. There is a critical need to expand the capacities of architectural representation to more effectively deal with how buildings shape, and are shaped by, these invisible dynamics. As well as to deal with how these dynamics are perceived by a building’s inhabitants. This essay will discuss invisible dynamics in architectural representation from a historical perspective and then explore how these dynamics can be expanded to more effectively design with invisible aspects of the physical world. The essay will conclude by presenting drawings by the authors that explore how new representational conventions can be developed to visualize and design with invisible dynamics in the physical world.  \nIntroduction  \nOver the past approximately 500 years, architectural representation has developed as a powerful visual language enabling architects to imagine and describe buildings. The great capacity of architectural representation is its dual role of imagining new worlds, and then describing those worlds. Architects do not typically draw after reality but use drawing to produce new realities. Because they work from the imaginary to the real, the most effective architectural drawings communicate immeasurable and measurable information simultaneously. An architectural drawing communicates qualitative, immeasurable aesthetic information as well as quantitative, measurable information such as length, quantity, orientation, etc. The complex nature of architectural representation is often described with a shorthand, that it is both ‘artistic’ and ‘technical.’  \nIn our era of climate crisis and resource depletion, it is becoming increasingly important for architects to engage invisible environmental phenomena in the design of buildings. For architecture to remain relevant as discipline, it’s representational system must evolve beyond an overwhelming bias, inherited from its origins in Gothic and Renaissance building practice, toward conceiving of buildings as static  \n∗Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic School of Architecture, USA.  \n±Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic School of Architecture, USA.  \nconstructions of visible matter perceived through vision. To do this in a way that isnot merely directed toward solving relatively straightforward problems such as energy efficiency and thermal comfort, but that also seeks to bring cultural value to the built environment, architectural representation needs to bridge between the imaginary and real, between the qualitative and quantitative, and between the‘artistic’ and ‘technical’ when it comes to conceptualizing, visualizing, and designing the invisible dynamics that shape the physical world. The vast majority of drawings that deal with environmental phenomena such as conduction, convection, radiation, and evaporation are reductive diagrams that remain in the technical realm of building science diagrams. 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