Worldmodelling
Architectural Models in the 21st Century
Architectural Design
1. Auflage April 2021
144 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
In light of current developments in modelling, and with the aim of reinvigorating debates around the potentiality of the architectural model - its philosophies, technologies and futures - this issue of AD examines how the model has developed to become an immersive worldbuilding machine. Worldbuilding is the creation of imaginary worlds through forms of cultural production. Although this discourse began with an analysis of imaginary places constructed in works of literature, it has evolved to encompass worlds from fields such as cinema, games, design, landscape, urbanism and architecture. Worldbuilding differs from the notion of worldmaking, which deals with how speculative thinking can influence the construction of the phenomenal world. As architects postulate ever-increasingly complex world models from which to draw inspiration and inform their practice, questions of scale, representation and collaboration emerge. Discussed through a range of articles from acclaimed international contributors in the fields of both architecture and media studies, this issue explores how the architectural model is situated between concepts of worldbuilding and worldmaking - in the creative space of worldmodelling.
Contributors: Kathy Battista, Thea Brejzek and Lawrence Wallen, Pascal Bronner and Thomas Hillier, Mark Cousins, James A Craig and Matt Ozga-Lawn, Kate Davies, Ryan Dillon, Christian Hubert, Chad Randl, Theodore Spyropoulos, and Mark JP Wolf.
Featured architects: Phil Ayres, FleaFolly Architects, Minimaforms, and Stasus.
Chapter 2 More on the Model: Building on the Ruins of Representation
Chapter 3 Miniature Places for Vicarious Visits: Worldbuilding and Architectural Models
Chapter 4 Polyphonic Dreams: Storytime in Synthetic Reality
Chapter 5 Worlds Without End
Chapter 6 Handmade Worlds: Constructing an Inhabitable Modelscape
Chapter 7 Remodelling: Home as Cosmos
Chapter 8 Everything You See is Yours: Step Towards the Certainty of Uncertainty
Chapter 9 Model & Fragment: On the Performance of Incomplete Architectures
Chapter 10 Models as Objects: The Installation as Architectural Encounter
Chapter 11 Zero Zero Ze(r)ro(r): How the Cartographic Thirst to Project the Real Reveals Spaces for the Creation of New Worlds
Chapter 12 From Mimicry to Coupling: Some Differences, Challenges and Opportunities of Bio-Hybrid Architectures
Chapter 13 The White Cube in Virtual Reality
Chapter 14 Backgarden Worldbuilding: The Architecture of the Model Village
Chapter 15 Paracosmic Project: The Architectural Long Game
Chapter 16 From Another Perspective - A Surrealist Rococo Master Kris Kuksi
Mike Aling is a senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich School of Design in London, where he is the Programme leader of MArch Architecture and unit master of MArch unit 14. Mike's research examines and speculates on the continuing evolution of digital architectural modelling processes, procedures and languages, as well as research into the future of the architectural book, printed media design anatomies and architectural publishing. Mike has been published and exhibited internationally.