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Why do we still need physical models to design and carry out architectural projects in the digital age, despite the possibilities of rendering and simulating buildings and connected spaces? ''Isle of models'' searching for answers to this question based on the central role of model making in the architectural studios at EPFL Lausanne. The history of the model and its use(...)
Isle of modelsl: architecture and scale
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Why do we still need physical models to design and carry out architectural projects in the digital age, despite the possibilities of rendering and simulating buildings and connected spaces? ''Isle of models'' searching for answers to this question based on the central role of model making in the architectural studios at EPFL Lausanne. The history of the model and its use in past architectural production is also discussed in this framework. The accompanying series of images illustrates the different forms and possibilities which the model can offer as part of the design process.
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Le Corbusier paper models
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Le Corbusier is a Modernist icon whose buildings and theories have influenced structures the world over. With the help of Marc Hagan-Guirey's new book, ''Le Corbusier Paper Models,'' you can create 10 of his most important works in paper using the art of kirigami (cutting and folding). Each project features step-by-step instructions, cutting tips and a template that you(...)
Le Corbusier paper models
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Le Corbusier is a Modernist icon whose buildings and theories have influenced structures the world over. With the help of Marc Hagan-Guirey's new book, ''Le Corbusier Paper Models,'' you can create 10 of his most important works in paper using the art of kirigami (cutting and folding). Each project features step-by-step instructions, cutting tips and a template that you can remove from the book. All you need is a scalpel, a cutting mat and a ruler. When you are done, simply display your model and admire your handiwork!
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For thousands of years, architects have used models to invent, experiment and communicate. A world in miniature, such models are even more varied in their purposes and materials than their full-scale counterparts. This elegant book explores the fascinating nature of the architectural model through 26 illustrated essays, one for each letter of the alphabet. Unbound by the(...)
An alphabet of architectural models
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For thousands of years, architects have used models to invent, experiment and communicate. A world in miniature, such models are even more varied in their purposes and materials than their full-scale counterparts. This elegant book explores the fascinating nature of the architectural model through 26 illustrated essays, one for each letter of the alphabet. Unbound by the practicalities of life-size construction, models allow architects the flexibility and freedom to think in three dimensions. Whether made for purely speculative exercises or to solve a specific problem, they are aids to the imagination. Equally, they can be used as detailed representations of particular places, either built or as yet unrealized, in order to convey information to patrons or the public. Models also have a vibrant life outside the architect’s office, including as souvenirs, architectural fragments displayed in museums, and toys for children and adults alike. Written by architects, model-makers, curators, conservators and scholars, the texts in this absorbing ''Alphabet'' explore such fundamental issues as modelling materials and techniques, scale, and the role of the model in the design process. They also go beyond conventional accounts to look at models under the X-ray machine, their use in film, and edible models. The result is a wide-ranging, original account of the multiple lives of the architectural model.
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Depuis 1993, le Centre national des arts plastiques a constitué un fonds d'esquisses, de maquettes et de travaux préparatoires liés aux commandes publiques d'oeuvres d'art. Riche de près de 4 600 objets réalisés par des plasticiens, architectes, designers, vidéastes ou photographes, il retrace quatre décennies de dialogue entre créateurs, pouvoirs publics et citoyens.(...)
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Préliminaires : Études et maquettes
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Depuis 1993, le Centre national des arts plastiques a constitué un fonds d'esquisses, de maquettes et de travaux préparatoires liés aux commandes publiques d'oeuvres d'art. Riche de près de 4 600 objets réalisés par des plasticiens, architectes, designers, vidéastes ou photographes, il retrace quatre décennies de dialogue entre créateurs, pouvoirs publics et citoyens. Avec une sélection de projets représentatifs de la diversité de cet ensemble, parfois restés au stade de l'étude, cet ouvrage propose de plonger au coeur du processus créatif et d'observer, en suivant l'histoire de cette collection singulière, l'art en train de se faire.
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Modern East
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"Modern East by Zupagrafika" celebrates socialist modernist and brutalist architecture of the former East Germany. Have a peep over the Wall and reconstruct some of the most intriguing edifices erected between the early 1950s and the late 1980s, from the massive "Plattenbauten" of Rostock, to the icons of DDR-Moderne. All models feature detailed illustrations of the(...)
Modern East
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"Modern East by Zupagrafika" celebrates socialist modernist and brutalist architecture of the former East Germany. Have a peep over the Wall and reconstruct some of the most intriguing edifices erected between the early 1950s and the late 1980s, from the massive "Plattenbauten" of Rostock, to the icons of DDR-Moderne. All models feature detailed illustrations of the original facades before their renovation. The kit includes: 9 illustrated paper models to cut out and assemble, an introduction to the history of architecture in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik by Florian Heilmeyer (writer on architecture and urbanism based in Berlin), a short piece of information on each building and easy to follow instructions.
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Architects construct models in order to better visualise their projects, to make them more tangible. Even after a building is realised, its model can offer new insights about the creative process of the designer. Photographed by Takashi Homma, the selection in this book comes exclusively from Japanese practices, spanning from the heyday of the Metabolists in the 1960s and(...)
Japanese architectural models: photography by Takashi Homma
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Architects construct models in order to better visualise their projects, to make them more tangible. Even after a building is realised, its model can offer new insights about the creative process of the designer. Photographed by Takashi Homma, the selection in this book comes exclusively from Japanese practices, spanning from the heyday of the Metabolists in the 1960s and 70s to the bubble economys collapse and the 21st century. Included are many notable works, among them Tadao Andos Church of the Light, Kisho Kurokawas Nakagin Capsule Tower, Toyo Itos Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, houses by Itsuko Hasegawa, and Ryue Nishizawas Teshima Art Museum.
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Modelling for the camera
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This publication pays tribute to two important systems of architectural representation: the model and the photograph. Rescuing over 100 original photographs of outstanding models - some eventually realized, and some that would remain unbuilt - from 20th-century Spain, this volume offers a modern, visual, critical and historiographical discourse on Spanish architecture(...)
Modelling for the camera
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This publication pays tribute to two important systems of architectural representation: the model and the photograph. Rescuing over 100 original photographs of outstanding models - some eventually realized, and some that would remain unbuilt - from 20th-century Spain, this volume offers a modern, visual, critical and historiographical discourse on Spanish architecture from this rich period after the First World War. Beyond the analysis of the models’ technical and compositional structure, the book includes sample pictures by photographers such as Francesc Català-Roca, Joaquín del Palacio (Kindel), Juan Pando, Martin Lladó, Oriol Maspons Ubiña Gomez and Ramón Massats, and architects such as José Manuel Aizpurúa, Alejandro de la Sota and Fernando Higueras.
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Modelling Time: The Permanent Collection 1925–2014 chronicles the exhibition Model as Ruin at the House of Artists in Oslo, November 1 – December 15, 2013. Together with master students from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Mari Hvattum and Mari Lending brought a unique, modernist model collection out of the archives, re-exhibiting it at the venue that once(...)
Modelling time: the permanent collection 1925-2014
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Modelling Time: The Permanent Collection 1925–2014 chronicles the exhibition Model as Ruin at the House of Artists in Oslo, November 1 – December 15, 2013. Together with master students from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Mari Hvattum and Mari Lending brought a unique, modernist model collection out of the archives, re-exhibiting it at the venue that once hosted its biggest ever display in 1931. The collection testifies to a different modernism; not white and austere but colourful, diverse, and full of detail. Modelling Time gives an in-depth portrayal of the so-called ‘Permanent Collection’ of Norwegian scale models, photographs and drawings, tracing its international trajectory of exhibitions from Brussels in 1927 to its last appearance at the World’s Fair in New York in 1939. The book documents the collection’s heydays as part of a vivid international modernist culture, as well as its archival diaspora as it falls into oblivion after WWII. In an extensive, archive-based essay editors Lending and Hvattum give the full context of the collection, while Juliane Derry and Jorge Otero-Pailos look into the models’ materiality and issues of decay. Model scholars and architecture curators Barry Bergdoll, Carson Chan, Pippo Ciorra, Oliver Elser, Juliet Koss, Andres Lepik, Adam Lowe, Wallis Miller, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Léa-Catherine Szacka, and Victor Plathe Tschudi presents a variety of perspectives inspired by the Oslo collection.
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Cet ouvrage est un recueil de dessins et de documents photographiques éclairant le travail de recherche et le processus de création des deux frères designers. Il met en regard des images de projets finis avec de nombreuses études formelles ou techniques oscillant entre onirisme et abstraction. Divers clichés pris au cours de la recherche et mettant en scène des maquettes(...)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec : objets, dessins, maquettes
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Cet ouvrage est un recueil de dessins et de documents photographiques éclairant le travail de recherche et le processus de création des deux frères designers. Il met en regard des images de projets finis avec de nombreuses études formelles ou techniques oscillant entre onirisme et abstraction. Divers clichés pris au cours de la recherche et mettant en scène des maquettes complètent un ensemble riche et cohérent.
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Modelling space
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On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Kiesler Foundation Vienna the symposium Modelling space took place at the Az W. The architects, artists and theorists: Ben van Berkel, Olafur Eliasson, Kurt W. Forster, Antje von Graevenitz and Hani Rashid/Asymptote took a stand on the topic of “modelling space”. In particular, there was a discussion of the newest tendencies(...)
Modelling space
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On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Kiesler Foundation Vienna the symposium Modelling space took place at the Az W. The architects, artists and theorists: Ben van Berkel, Olafur Eliasson, Kurt W. Forster, Antje von Graevenitz and Hani Rashid/Asymptote took a stand on the topic of “modelling space”. In particular, there was a discussion of the newest tendencies and developments in the realm of architectural and artistic spatial interventions as well as an examination of the intentions of novel design practices and working processes in architecture and art.
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