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Modernism in Miniature: Points of View. Installation view, 2011
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View. Installation view, 2011
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View. Installation view, 2011
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View. Installation view, 2011
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View. Installation view, 2011
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View. Installation view, 2011
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View. Installation view, 2011
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View. Installation view, 2011
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View. Installation view, 2011
After a period of decline, the architectural model gained new prominence when it became a popular tool for design education and practice in the early twentieth century. This revival is usually associated with the turn towards objectivity and the search for expressive means to communicate ideas in three dimensions—but how was the model transformed in the age of its mechanical reproducibility?
Modernism in Miniature explores the encounter between photography and model-making between 1920 and 1960. It focuses on model photography as a distinctive genre and suggests that the so-called “model boom” was inextricably bound up with the explosion of modern mass media.
Curator: Davide Deriu, University of Westminster.
Selected objects
Unknown photographer. Daniil Fridman and Gleb Glushchenko with a model for the Building of Industry, Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union. 1930-1931. Gelatin silver print, 22.8 x 15.8 cm. CCA Collection. PH1993:0215
Unknown photographer. View of model for the Building of Industry, Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union, designed by Daniil Fridman and Gleb Glushchenko. 1930-1931. Gelatin silver print, 15.8 x 22.5 cm. CCA Collection. PH1993:0220
Carlo Mollino. Photograph of a photomontage of a model for an apartment in the Condominio di Sanremo, facing the sea, San Remo, Italy. 1946 or after. Gelatin silver print, 16.4 x 23.9 cm. CCA Collection. PH1999:0106. Courtesy of the Carlo Mollino Estate
Advertisement for the model making firm Perfecta. In L’architecture d’aujourd’hui, no. 9, 1935. CCA Collection. W.A776_no.9_Sept1935_Adv.Perfecta © L’architecture d’aujourd’hui
Project for the Centrosoyus Palace, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, model views, 1929. In L’architecture vivante, no. 27, spring 1930.
House for an artist and Private House, project by Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van Eesteren et Gerrit Rietveld, model views and plans, 1922. Double page in L’Architecture Vivante, Fall 1925.
R. Landau, photographer. Views of model for Quitandinha Hotel and Apartment Block at Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, photomontages. 1950.
Lecture by Davide Deriu
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