Model Architecture: A House of Models

Model Architecture: House of Models is a project about the model as part of the architect’s artistic process and an essential poetic and pedagogical tool.

 It is about the significance of historical continuity and the value of precedents as part of our cultural heritage. Model Architecture: House of Models collects and exhibits a series of proposals for Architectural Figures or Urban Characters – a series of self-initiated projects and formal studies inspired by the formal, archaic qualities of specific projects by selected architects (Rossi, Hejduk, Brodsky, Markli, Poul Ingemann, etc).

In that sense, the project calls for an appreciation of exemplary or ‘Model’ architectures while also enjoying a fascination with the architectural model as an ambiguous entity in its own right, coexisting between art, sculpture and architecture. This artistic research project communicates through the models assembled in the House of Models and the models by students from Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability. The Model House is an ambiguous structure/space/sculpture with spaces for numerous models.

Programme

Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability (Institute of Architecture and Culture)

Internal participants

Bodil Vedberg, Peter Grue, Alexander Magnus Øvreas Wille, Ilse Cardenas Gonzales External 

External partners

Serious Interests Agency (Art & Architecture Studio)