An investigation of different uses for the architectural model
through history-as sign, souvenir, funerary object, didactic tool,
medium for design, and architect's muse. 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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