City Road Podcast

In this episode we talk to Matthew Mindrup about his new book, which provides an intriguing narrative about the practical and cultural factors motivating the development of the architectural model’s different uses. "Painters make paintings, poets make poetry and musicians make music, but architects do not make architecture." Dr Matthew Mindrup The attractiveness of the architectural model, he argues, is that it, unlike drawings or other two-dimensional representations of buildings, has a “here-ness” permitting their users to see before them an entire structure, the volumes of its spaces, and its constituent parts in three dimensions, including the size and location of the openings, its materials, and even its methods of construction. Here is the book blurb from the MIT Press. The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse Rigorously researched and informed by the latest research, The Architectural Model is written to help orient the reader in the study of