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Wurzburg of Grand Rapids. [electronic resource].

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Commercial buildings Michigan Grand Rapids Models,
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Buildings, structures, etc. Models,
Wurzburg of Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids, Mich.),
Souvenir Models (representations); Banks (containers)

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Unidentified [193-]

Title:
Wurzburg of Grand Rapids. [electronic resource].

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Unidentified [193-]

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Commercial buildings Michigan Grand Rapids Models,
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Wurzburg of Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids, Mich.),
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Bank of New Glarus [electronic resource].

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Bank buildings Wisconsin New Glarus Models,
New Glarus (Wis.) Buildings, structures, etc. Models,
Bank of New Glarus (New Glarus, Wis.),
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[Toystalgia] [1993?]

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Bank of New Glarus [electronic resource].

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[Toystalgia] [1993?]

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Bank buildings Wisconsin New Glarus Models,
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Bank of New Glarus (New Glarus, Wis.),
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Living Complex : From Zombie City to the New Communal / Niklas Maak.

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Library main 291033 | BIB 234330 | Available

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240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Maak, Niklas,,
Wohnkomplex. English,
Maak, Niklas. Wohnkomplex.

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Architecture, Domestic History 20th century.,
Architecture, Domestic History 21st century.,
City planning History 21st century.,
Housing.,
Architecture, Domestic,
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Publication:
Munich : Hirmer, [2015], ©2015

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Living Complex : From Zombie City to the New Communal / Niklas Maak.

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240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Munich : Hirmer, [2015], ©2015

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Maak, Niklas,,
Wohnkomplex. English,
Maak, Niklas. Wohnkomplex.

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Title:
The architectural model: histories of the miniature and the prototype, the exemplar and the muse

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MATTHEW MINDRUP

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Architectural Theory

Publication:
October 2019

Title:
The architectural model: histories of the miniature and the prototype, the exemplar and the muse

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For more than five hundred years, architects have employed three-dimensional models as tools to test, refine, and illustrate their ideas. But, as Matthew Mindrup shows, the uses of physical architectural models extend beyond mere representation. An architectural model can also simulate, instruct, inspire, and generate architectural designs. It can be, among other things, sign, souvenir, toy, funerary object, didactic tool, medium, or muse. In this book, Mindrup surveys the history of architectural models by investigating their uses, both theoretical and practical. Tracing the architectural model's development from antiquity to the present, Mindrup also offers an interpretive framework for understanding each of its applications in the context of time and place. He first examines models meant to portray extant, fantastic, or proposed structures, describing their use in ancient funerary or dedicatory practices, in which models are endowed with magical power; as a medium for architectural reverie and inspiration; and as prototypes for twentieth-century experimental designs. Mindrup then considers models that exemplify certain architectural uses, exploring the influence of Leon Battista Alberti's dictum that models be simple, lest they distract from the architect's ideas; analyzing the model as a generative tool; and investigating allegorical, analogical, and anagogical interpretations of models. Mindrup's histories show how the model can be a surrogate for the architectural structure itself, or for the experience of its formal, tactile, and sensory complexity; and beyond that, that the manipulation, play, experimentation, and dreaming enabled by models allow us to imagine architecture in new ways.

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