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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Guest-Editors
- Introduction: Scaling Up The Many Worlds of the Architectural Model
- More onthe Model: Building on the Ruinsof Representation
- Miniature Placesfor Vicarious Visits: Worldbuilding and Architectural Models
- PolyphonicDreams: Storytime in Synthetic Reality
- WorldsWithout End
- Handmade Worlds: Constructing an Inhabitable Modelscape
- Remodelling: Home as Cosmos
- Everything YouSee is Yours: Step Towards the Certainty of Uncertainty
- Model & Fragment: On the Performance of Incomplete Architectures
- Models as Objects: The Installation asArchitectural Encounter
- Zero Zero Ze(r)ro(r): How the Cartographic Thirst to Project the Real Reveals Spaces for the Creation of New Worlds
- From Mimicry to Coupling: Some Differences, Challenges and Opportunities of Bio-Hybrid Architectures
- The White Cube in Virtual Reality
- Backgarden Worldbuilding: The Architecture of the Model Village
- Paracosmic Project: The Architectural Long Game
- From Another Perspective: A Surrealist Rococo Master Kris Kuksi
- Contributors
- EULA