In an age where we have been going from hyperrealistic renders to digital models to the realm of the metaverse, physical architectural models have almost become a thing of the past. Nonetheless, ...

Long before rendering two-dimensional designs into three-dimensional models became standard architectural procedure, the indigenous peoples of Latin America represented buildings in small-scale forms ...

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It may seem strange and nerdy, but people are increasingly commissioning miniature houses that they used to live in as keepsakes — and there’s some serious money involved. Commissioned models can cost ...

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 ...

When English artisan Timothy Richards sends people close-up photos of his 14-inch-tall plaster model of the Pantheon in Rome, they usually mistake it for the real thing. “They write back to say, ‘What ...

Few are the architectural models that can be eaten with onion dip. But then again, few are the architects who create experimental models quite like Sou Fujimoto. The Japanese-born architect, now based ...

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 ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, miniature staircases, along with all sorts of other interior details, were produced by architects and furnituremakers for models of proposed structures. Collecting ...