This thesis engages in the idea of a mask in Architecture. It is a mask for Scuola Vechchia della Misericordia, in a small campo in Venice. The thesis further explores the following ideas through a set of drawings and images : 'Revealing' made possible through the degree of concealment. 'Parting of the Veil' as a Byzantine influence in Venice. Theater and the mask. Temporary and the Permanent. Memory and imagination.