Architectural models … there’s not a person walking the planet who doesn’t love them. My office isn’t particularly large, either in terms of employees (7) or square footage (1,677 sf), but we currently have 17 physical models of projects lying around. Despite their protests, I am not considering any of my employees as “architectural models”. At […]

Architectural models … there’s not a person walking the planet who doesn’t love them. My office isn’t particularly large, either in terms of employees (7) or square footage (1,677 sf), but we currently have 17 physical models of projects lying around. Despite their protests, I am not considering any of my employees as “architectural models”.
At times, it seems like architectural models are like summer zucchini, more and more just keep showing up … if you lift up a piece of paper in our office, odds are you will find one of those two things underneath. There are times when my office looks completely trashed because we have stuff lying on every horizontal surface. Are architects supposed to be tidy people" Evidence would suggest that they are not, something that drives me a bit crazy because I have a hard time working in a messy environment … it’s almost as if the spacing has an energy to it – a sort of visual buzzing – that keeps me from being able to see past the chaos.

We literally have architectural models stashe...