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Models: Architecture and the Miniature
ISBN: 978-0-470-01592-6
Paperback
216 pages
November 2006
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Introduction : To 3D or Not to 3D.

1 A Model Education.

• Sadar Vuga, House D, Velenje, Slovenia.

• Brain Bowman, Design for a House of under 200 square feet.

• UN Studio, Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany.

2 Sketch Models.

• José Oubrerie, French Cultural Centre, Damascus, Syria.

• Frank O. Gehry, Gehry Partners, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA.

• Le Corbusier and José Oubrerie, Church of Saint-Pierre de Firminy, Firminy-Vert, France.

• NOX, Centre Pompidou 2, Metz, France and Dave Lee, Hayden Planetarium, New York, USA.

3 Representational Modes.

Part 1: Projective Models.

• Zaha Hadid Architects, Placa de las Artes, Barcelona, Spain and Peter Eisenman,.

Tours Musical Conservatory and Contemporary Arts Centre, Tours, France.

• assemblageSTUDIO, Mesquite Fine Arts Center, Mesquite, Nevada, USA.

• Daniel Libeskind, World Trade Center, New York, USA and The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany.

• Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Nanjing Greenland Financial Centre, Nanjing, China.

Part 2: Retrospective Models.

• Peter Wong and students, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte,.

Section Models of various Adolf Loos Villas.

• Greg Snyder, Mobile Gallery, USA.

• Zaha Hadid Architects, National Centre of Contemporary Arts, Rome, Italy.

and Rosenthal Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

• David Chipperfield, Literature Museum, Marbach, Germany.

• Coop Himmelb(l)au, BMW Welt, Munich, Germany.

4 Model Culture.

• Peter Wheelwright and Laurie Simmons, The Kaleidoscope House.

• Greg Lynn, Alessi Coffee and Tea Towers.

• Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, Logo Works #1.

• Bekonscot Model Village, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK.

• Mike McCrary, Mike’s Amazing Cakes, Seattle, Washington, USA.

• Michael Cadwell, Pastoral Quartet.

• Interview with Gene Rizzardi, Hollywood Models.

5 Virtual Estimations of CAD.

• Jawad al-Tabtaba’i, A Mosque for Dearborn, Michigan, USA.

• Steve Turk, Parenthesis House, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

• Ebru Simsek, Service Pack4Robotnik – Gym Updated, Vienna, Austria.

Conclusion : CAM to the Rescue.

• Keagan Wilson, Drive-through Wedding Chapel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

• Greg Lynn, Uniserve Corporate Headquarters, Los Angeles and Transformation of Kleiburg: Housing Renovation, Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Notes.

CAD-CAM Resources.

Index.

Bibliography.

Acknowledgements.

Photocredits.