Regarding visual culture, Malcolm Bernard18 noted that the visual culture can be seen in two
senses. The weak sense stresses the visual side including all forms of art and design as well as
personal or body-related phenomena e.g. fashion, body-piercing, and tattooing. The strong sense
is interested in studying and understanding the ways a cultural group produces and reproduces
its specific character and individuality, which are utilised to assemble and communicate cultural
identity. Thus, this paper tends to use visual culture in the strong sense by ‘perusing’ architecture
in order to understand architectural heritage.
Architecture, indeed, is one of the most enduring activities of cultural evidences as its extensive,
extravagant and durable properties. The art and design of architecture makes our existence not
only visible but meaningful. This makes architecture becoming a more discussed topic,
particularly through its dissemination in visual culture.