Models

"Many architects use finished models for presentations, competitions and exhibitions. Others embrace sketch models as quick, economic and flexible generative tools. It is only with the rise of the virtual that the advantages and disadvantages of more traditional models can be fully evaluated. As attested by this book, we are now at an important watershed for the model in architecture. Practitioners and educators alike are seeking to fully understand the multiplicity of model types and how they might be best deployed at appropriate stages in the design process." "The historic role that the…