Architectural Model as Machine

A New View from Antiquity to the Present Day

Albert C. Smith

137 pages, parution le 23/09/2004

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This book offers an explanation of why scale models are important to the design process. Albert Smith takes the reader through the history and significance of models in architecture from the magic of the Egyptian scale model to the present day.

Through this description of the relationship between architecture and the scale model, Smith demonstrates the most effective process between concept and 'machine', between the idea and the final building. The great value of this book is to reveal the nature of the scale model and to unlock the tremendous potential of this design tool as a thinking and communicative advice.

His chronological analysis goes on from Egypt through Rome to the relationship between the Greek paradigm scale model and then on to Medieval and Renaissance models. It concludes with the models of the Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi, the Russian Constructivists, the American architect Louis Khan and finally looks at the role of scale models in the present day through the work of the Polish/American architect Daniel Libeskind and the American Frank Gehry.

L'auteur - Albert C. Smith

Graduate School of Architecture, University of Utah, USA

Sommaire

Define/Divine/Design
The Changing Mechanism of the Scale Model
Scale Model as Machine
Machine as Scale Model Machine
Pandora and the Modern Scale Model Machine

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Architectural Press
Auteur(s)	Albert C. Smith
Parution	23/09/2004
Nb. de pages	137
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	437g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750656344
ISBN13	978-0-7506-5634-4