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Models as a Medium in Architecture
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: Received: 11 December 2017 / Approved: 12 December 2017 / Online: 12 December 2017 (07:05:09 CET)
How to cite: Seelow, A.M. Models as a Medium in Architecture. Preprints 2017, 2017120071. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201712.0071.v1 Seelow, A.M. Models as a Medium in Architecture. Preprints 2017, 2017120071. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201712.0071.v1
Abstract
Architecture is more than just buildings. Its associated production and reception processes take place through a variety of different media. Among those media, the model is of special significance: because architecture, like almost every science or art, works with models as representationally or theoretically simplified images mediating between the abstract and the reality. The properties that characterise models give them a special significance in architecture—both in the abstract, as well as in the concrete. The following article sketches out the history of the architectural model as a medium in a short tour d’horizon. A special focus is placed on showing the versatility of the model—for design and presentation and as an artefact, teaching resource and research medium. It transmits a specific form of knowledge which can be replaced by no other medium.
Keywords
history of architecture; architectural models; architectural media
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Art
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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