Architectural Model as Machine by Albert Smith
Engineering & Transportation | Engineering

Title:
Architectural Model as Machine
Author:
Albert Smith
ISBN:
0750656344
ISBN13:
978-0750656344
Size PDF:
1411 kb
Size epub:
1407 kb
Publisher:
Routledge; 1 edition (November 4, 2004)
Language:
English
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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.