Dancing with the machine

Title: Dancing with the machine
Creator: Ostwald, Michael J.
Relation: Homo Faber: Modelling Architecture p. 30-35
Relation: http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/Resources/Publications.php
Publisher: SIAL, Melbourne Museum & Archadia Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2007
Description: Some designers make their own models as a means of understanding or presenting a concept for a future building. Others construct miniatures because they see the model as a finished object, not simply a likeness that prefigures a future form. This second proposition is not unreasonable when we remember that architects do not make buidlings - architects make representations of buildings. However, a more common occurence is that the designer does not make the model; some third party, an assistant or professional, takes directions from the designer to construct the miniature. Peter Eisenman describes his senior model maker as his 'dancing partner [...] The model maker understands how I dance. To make a model, he and I have to dance together in a certain way, and when he gets out of range, I have to say. "Wait a minute, come back".
Subject: architecture; model makers; architectural miniatures; architectural models; architect relationships
Identifier: uon:5767
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44460
Identifier: ISBN:9780977571123

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