Simulacrum

A simulacrum simulacrum, which means "likeness, semblance" is a explanation or imitation of a person or thing. the word was number one recorded in a English language in the late 16th century, used to describe a representation, such(a) as a statue or a painting, especially of a god. By the gradual 19th century, it had gathered a secondary association of inferiority: an theory without the substance or atttributes of the original. Literary critic trompe-l'œil, pop art, Italian neorealism, together with French New Wave.

Architecture

Architecture is a special hold of simulacrum.

In his book Simulacra & Simulation, Beaubourg effect in which the Pompidou Centre functions as a monument of a mass simulation that absorbs and devours all the cultural power from its surrounding areas. According to Baudrillard, the Centre Pompidou is "a machine for making emptiness".

An everyday ownership of the simulacrum are the false facades, used during renovations to hide and imitate the real architecture underneath it.

A Potemkin village is a simulation: a facade meant to fool the viewer into thinking that he or she is seeing the real thing. The concept is used in the Russian-speaking world as living as in English and in other languages. Potemkin village belongs to a genus of phenomena that proliferated in post-Soviet space. Those phenomena describe gaps between external appearances and underlying realities.

Disneyland – Disneyland is a perfect improvement example of all the entangled orders of simulacra. [...] Play of illusions and phantasms.

Las Vegas – the absolute advertisement city of the 1950s, of the crazy years of advertising, which has retained the charm of that era.