The creative work of artists such as Federico Babina (Italian illustrator) convinces us that our imaginative power can always go beyond borders at the present day while there is no field of art that architecture does not interact with. The sketches of Babina subsumes iconic characters, famous musicians, artists, directors, movies, architects or more by portraying and identifying them with architectural spaces and structures from another point of view. How would a house reminding Andy Warhol's art be? What type of a building would you draw for Le Corbusier to live in? What would Marilyn Monroe's place look like if she was alive nowadays? These questions are answered by Babina's series of work which are named archist, archidesign, archilife and more. In this project; he brings out the data of his unique perception about these icons which he collected in his cognitive map and commits them into paper then translates to a piece of art. The aim of this paper is to resolve whether the popular symbols and icons in peoples brains are coded similar or not by analysing how Federico Babina's sketches of famous artists or art objects turn into spatial and architectural places. The works of Babina show us that the relation of art and architecture is a matter of fact which may be formalized any time and different diciplines can be visualised by interpenetration so we can express the perception of our own easily. To be able to solve the keywords of his perception will prove that if we are looking at the icons we created as a society, from the same perspective or not.
Keywords: Architecture, Federico Babina, Icons, Image, Archidesign.