5. "The Architectural Model: Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia".
Author: Dirk Van Den Heuvel
Publisher: Archis, 2015
A working model made of styrodur, taped, jagged and described. A seductive, illuminated Plexiglas mock-up for a developer. Mock-up as a work of art in itself, a substitute for realization. A gold-plated mock-up as a gift for Hitler's 50th birthday. The role of mock-ups varies from a tool for design work to a propaganda item carried during a May 1 parade. From urban scale, which gives the illusion of creatureliness and allows you to rearrange a lake, to so-called mock-ups of actual size used during implementation. Despite digital models, mock-ups are still made and serve their purpose in both presentations and work. The book presents original mock-ups of many well-known and lesser-known buildings and shows the spectrum of possibilities for making them and, not insignificantly, photographing them.
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