Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43636
- Title
- Homo faber: modelling ideas
- Author/Creator
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Downton, Peter;
Mina, Andrea;
Ostwald, Michael J.;
Burry, Mark
- Institution
- University of Newcastle. Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Description
- In this, the second Homo Faber book about architectural models, the focus is on the role that models play in representing ideas or concepts. For a person who has not been educated in architecture or design the very thought that models can exist, for some purpose other than to prefigure a completed building, is probably a surprise. Yet, every architect and architecture student learns that models can express a range of themes, ideas and desires none of which are necessarily constructable or even prefigure a design solution. Few of these models are ever seen by the general public and it is rare that an opportunity arises to gain a more detailed level of understanding about their production, application and meaning. This book explores the creation and use of architectural 'idea' or 'concept' models in the design process.
- Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, Melbourne Museum and Archadia Press
- Keyword(s)
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architectural models;
architectural design
- Resource Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43636
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780977571130
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