Models are one of the most fundamental tools of practicing — as well as educating — architects around the world. However, the advancement and proliferation of digital technology has fundamentally altered the position and role of models within architectural education and practice.
On Models is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and MOCA within the context of its exhibition HOUSE OF CARD by Thomas Demand, featuring essays contributed by Thea Brejzek and Lawrence Wallen, Jake Chakasim, Penelope Dean, Orit Halpern, Sylvia Lavin, David Theodore, and Albena Yaneva.
Read the series here.
Published Content
- Editorial by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, and November Paynter
- Missed Magic: Models and the Contagious Togetherness of Making Architecture by Albena Yaneva
- Architecture, Model, Performance by Thea Brejzek and Lawrence Wallen
- American Psycho and the Fictions of Toronto Real Estate by David Theodore
- One to What? Cultural Technique and Model Making by Sylvia Lavin
- The Consummation of Plastic Emotions by K. Jake Chakasim
