Models, reality and representation. A brief tour through the architectural model in EGA's 25-year print run a

Abstract

Models have always gone hand in hand with the action of architecture. And although the oldest ones that have come down to us could be of a formal nature, there is sufficient evidence to show that architectural models are essential to the representation of the idea, the project or the architecture itself. We can follow their continuity in time, and explain through it their ongoing success in our digital times. However, their objectual and playful role has prevented models to be considered rigorously in the history of architectural representation. In EGA magazine, some experts on this subject have been contributing to their study from the beginning, and this work pretends to relate the importance of those contributions for a future theory of the model of architecture.