In this week's reprint, author Mark Alan Hewitt talks about models and their importance. "For those of us lucky enough to have grown up during the 1950s and ’60s, models were hot stuff—and not just ...

Historians have overlooked the ways in which architects perceived and used models during the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of documentary sources, as well as drawings, prints and a ...

Before ground is broken or bricks are laid on any building, architects get to work on a smaller scale, creating models of what buildings and sometimes whole landscapes could look like. City of ...

The discipline of Architectural History, Theory and Criticism examines the evolution of built environments through a multifaceted lens that integrates historical analysis, theoretical frameworks and ...

Models are useful to architects for all sorts of things, from the earliest parts of the design, all the way to marketing a building after it's built. But, what is it about models that makes them such ...

Introduction: Beyond the forbidden city; Genesis of Chinese buildings and cities; Architecture of the First Emperor and his predecessors; Han architecture; And age of turmoil: three kingdoms, two jins ...

One of the first things you see when you enter The Cooper Union is a model of the Foundation Building, dating from 2014, the first year in the school’s then-155-year history that students were charged ...

NORTH ADAMS — In December 2015, plans for “an extreme model railroad museum” were in full effect, with Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art visionary Thomas Krens spearheading the project and two ...