The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse

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Matthew Mindrup (Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney)

The Architectural Model

Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse

Matthew Mindrup (Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney)

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MIT Press
08 October 2019

Art & design styles: Postmodernism; History of architecture

Series: The MIT Press

An investigation of different uses for the architectural model through history-as sign, souvenir, funerary object, didactic tool, medium for design, and architect's muse.

For more than five hundred years, architects have employed three-dimensional models as tools to test, refine, and illustrate their ideas. But, as Matthew Mindrup shows, the uses of physical architectural models extend beyond mere representation. An architectural model can also simulate, instruct, inspire, and generate architectural designs. It can be, among other things, sign, souvenir, toy, funerary object, didactic tool, medium, or muse. In this book, Mindrup surveys the history of architectural models by investigating their uses, both theoretical and practical. Tracing the architectural model's development from antiquity to the present, Mindrup also offers an interpretive framework for understanding each of its applications in the context of time and place. He first examines models meant to portray extant, fantastic, or proposed structures, describing their use in ancient funerary or dedicatory practices, in which models are endowed with magical power; as a medium for architectural reverie and inspiration; and as prototypes for twentieth-century experimental designs. Mindrup then considers models that exemplify certain architectural uses, exploring the influence of Leon Battista Alberti's dictum that models be simple, lest they distract from the architect's ideas; analyzing the model as a generative tool; and investigating allegorical, analogical, and anagogical interpretations of models. Mindrup's histories show how the model can be a surrogate for the architectural structure itself, or for the experience of its formal, tactile, and sensory complexity; and beyond that, that the manipulation, play, experimentation, and dreaming enabled by models allow us to imagine architecture in new ways.

By: Matthew Mindrup (Senior Lecturer University of Sydney)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 25mm
ISBN: 9780262042758
ISBN 10: 0262042754
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 08 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matthew Mindrup is Senior Lecturer in the University of Sydney's School of Architecture, Design, and Planning. He is the author of The Material Imagination- Reveries on Architecture and Matter.