Why do we make models? From sketch maquettes and detail tests to diagrammatic and presentation models, the discipline of physically crafting ideas to scale is fundamental to the architect's design ...

When we speak of intelligence at the 2025 Venice Biennale, the main exhibition broadly categorizes it into three domains: natural, artificial, and collective. While much attention has been drawn to ...

A display wall at Radii in Hoboken, New Jersey, shows the range of models built by the shop since it opened in 2000. (Christopher Payne/Esto) Amid all of the ways to make an architectural model ...

Richard Tenguerian, with a model of 5 Riverside Center in his studio. Photos by Max Touhey, unless noted. In photos pinned up on the walls of his workshop and office, Richard Tenguerian stands like a ...

At first glance, the wooden assemblage, about 2 feet long, could be a work of art—an early experiment by Noguchi, perhaps. But something else is going on; the piece is actually a sequence. The first ...