Content
Are You a Model? explores the model as an architectural tool and practice. The volume does not view architectural models in rigid categories, but approaches them through questions such as: What determines the functions and effective forces of a model? When in the design process does it unfold its power and when has it fulfilled its purpose? Based on nine overarching questions, this book brings together interdisciplinary voices from architecture, art history, architectural and curatorial practice and software engineering. 31 contributions interweave perspectives from different regions and disciplines, not seeking conclusive answers, but revealing surprising commonalities. Models are thus not classified here according to time of origin, genre or material, but understood as an epistemologically diverse practice.
Keywords
architectural model
architecture
architecture theory