Pyo Mi-young, Construction and Design Manual, Architectural Models, DOM Publishers, Berlin 2012 (two volumes; pp. 1.000; €98,00)
With the recent development of affordable 3D-printers, the character of architectural models is changing dramatically. Much as the architectural drawing used to require a physical relation between the designer and his design, also the model used to be a physical expression of concepts and ideas, leading to a real and handmade object. In the process of model-making, many questions about a design concept become clear, and new questions about spatial relations, proportions, views and even construction arise. With 3D-printers, this physical relation is disconnected.
The printer uses digital information and translates it directly into a mechanical process of printing. Models can have various functions and looks, from folded pieces of paper as a first study to very detailed and expensive presentation models, specifically made to seduce future clients. Models can be made quickly and from very cheap materials and on all scales.
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Models can have various functions and looks, from folded pieces of paper as a first study to very detailed and expensive presentation models, specifically made to seduce future clients
![Oliver Elser, Peter Cachola Schmal, <em>The Architectural Model. Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia</em>, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2012. Page detail Oliver Elser, Peter Cachola Schmal, <em>The Architectural Model. Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia</em>, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2012. Page detail](/content/dam/domusweb/en/reviews/2012/11/16/model-architecture/big_400279_3650_4661.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
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