Design visualization as a general name for graphic methods of creating, analyzing, and transmitting information in the process of designing architectural and urban space, serves as a tool supporting design and marketing. Visual means are helpful in presenting the non-existent historical tissue and in depicting the historical context. As a specific graphic language, they are used to exchange ideas at earlier stages of the process, They illustrate the designed visions, and they are also an element of the competitive "sale" of the product, i.e. a newly designed space each time. Graphical ways of presenting space, regardless of the tool used and location in the historical era, have an impact on the nature of research and design work. Visualization has a cognitive, archiving, and didactic function. Conceived as a means of artistic expression, it can also be classified as an autonomous category of fine arts. Graphic methods of presenting space, regardless of the tool used and its setting in a historical era, influence the nature of research and design work. Visualization serves cognitive, archiving, and teaching purposes. Understood as a means of artistic expression, it can also be classified as an autonomous category of visual arts.