Modeling messages : the architect and the model / Karen Moon.

Main entry:

Moon, Karen.

Title & Author:

Modeling messages : the architect and the model / Karen Moon.

Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, 2005.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-231) and index.
The model defined -- A common thread -- A question of scale -- Vision -- Communication: idea and identity -- Makers -- Material matters -- A process of change.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Modeling Messages: The Architect and the Model is a study of the contemporary model and its myriad uses in architectural practice, focusing on the object itself - its makers, materials, and methods of fabrication - and on its roles within the design profession and for the public."
"Author Karen Moon identifies two principal types of models: those made for the relatively private functions of design and exchange of ideas and those prepared for the typically more public purposes of communication and presentation. Grounded in a discussion of historic models - Michelangelo's massive wooden models of Renaissance churches, Sir John Soane's beautifully crafted replicas of the Bank of England, Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist Architektons of the early twentieth century - the author's text draws as well on her extensive interviews with architects and modelmakers. Illustrations include rare archival images along with spectacular and creative models from noted international architects."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

1580931286 (alk. paper)
9781580931281 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architectural models.
Architectural models History 20th century.
Architecture Designs and plans.
Modèles architecturaux.
Modèles architecturaux Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Dessins et plans.
Architecture.
Architecten.
Bouwkunde.
Bouwkunst.
Schaalmodellen.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238214
Call No.: BIB 168072
Status: Available

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