Architecture and Model Building: Concepts, Methods, Materials
Alexander Schilling
Birkhäuser, September 2018

Flexicover | 7 x 9-1/2 inches | 250 pages | 176 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3035614794 | $45.99

Publisher Description:
Architectural models are used at various stages of a project. As working models they support the design process: they are made up from time to time using simple materials, such as cardboard, without any attempt at accuracy, and continue to be adjusted and added to as the ideas and the design progress. The point here is to swiftly check a design idea, to allow it to be continued or dismissed. Presentational models are more involved; at this stage the design has been completed and the purpose of the model is to convey the ideas to the potential user in a clear and easy-to-understand way.
The book Architecture and Model Building includes outstanding examples explaining the possibilities of this medium and, at the same time, provides comprehensive information on materials and techniques.dDAB Commentary:
Like most architects, I'm a big fan of architectural models. While I'm not very good at making them, I appreciate well-made models and gravitate to them in exhibitions, when on a design jury, or in any presentation by an architect. In person they are particularly powerful, enabling one to grasp a project's scale, massing, materials, sense of space, and other qualities. Models can do so much more than drawings (without replacing the...