How to Write Architecture Prompts - Nano Banana 2

Decide where the camera stands and how high it is. Eye level from across the street gives an honest, documentary view. A low angle close to the base gives drama and exaggerated height. An elevated or drone position shows how the building sits in its surroundings. Each produces a fundamentally different picture of the same structure, and leaving it unsaid means the model averages them into a bland three-quarter view.

Then say whether you want the verticals straight. Real architectural work uses tilt-shift lenses or perspective correction to keep the sides of a building parallel rather than converging upward. Asking for “corrected verticals, parallel edges, tilt-shift perspective” produces the clean formal look of a magazine spread. Leaving it out produces the leaning, wide-angle-tourist look — which is a legitimate choice, just make it deliberately.

Say something about age and condition too. New and immaculate, or forty years old with staining below the window sills and moss in the shadowed corners. Nothing dates an image as synthetic faster than materials that look like they were installed this morning and have never been rained on.

Overcast midday is the neutral setting: even light, no drama, every surface legible. Low sun in the hour after sunrise or before sunset rakes across a facade and reveals every ledge and reveal in the material. Blue hour with the interior lights on is the standard for a finished-project shot, because the sky is still bright enough to hold detail while the windows glow.