Worldmodelling: Architectural Models in the 21st Century

About the Guest Editors Mark Morris and Mike Aling 05 Introduction Scaling Up The Many Worlds of the Architectural Model Mark Morris and Mike Aling 06 More on the Model Building on the Ruins of Representation Christian Hubert 14 Miniature Places for Vicarious Visits Worldbuilding and Architectural Models Mark JP Wolf 22 Polyphonic Dreams Storytime in Synthetic Reality Kate Davies 32 Worlds Without End Mark Cousins 40 Handmade Worlds Constructing an Inhabitable Modelscape Pascal Bronner and Thomas Hillier 48 Remodelling Home as Cosmos Chad Randl 56 Everything You See is Yours Step Towards the Certainty of Uncertainty Theodore Spyropoulos 64 Model & Fragment On the Performance of Incomplete Architectures Thea Brejzek and Lawrence Wallen 74 Models as Objects The Installation as Architectural Encounter James A Craig and Matt Ozga-Lawn 82 Zero Zero Ze(r)ro(r) How the Cartographic Thirst to Project the Real Reveals Spaces for the Creation of New Worlds Ryan Dillon 88 From Mimicry to Coupling Some Differences, Challenges and Opportunities of Bio-Hybrid Architectures Phil Ayres 96 The White Cube in Virtual Reality Kathy Battista 102 Backgarden Worldbuilding The Architecture of the Model Village Mike Aling 112 Paracosmic Project The Architectural Long Game Mark Morris 120 From Another Perspective A Surrealist Rococo Master Kris Kuksi Neil Spiller 128

Mark Morris is Head of Teaching and Learning at the Architectural Association, teaching history and theory as well as leading the school's curricular initiatives, academic appointments, and development of new programmes. Mark has written extensively on the model in journals, book chapters and books; most comprehensively with Models: Architecture and the Miniature (Wiley, 2006). He lectures internationally on the subject of model learning and serves on the RIBA Academic Publications Advisory Panel. Mike Aling is a senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich School of Design in London, where he is the Programme leader of MArch Architecture and unit master of MArch unit 14. Mike's research examines and speculates on the continuing evolution of digital architectural modelling processes, procedures and languages, as well as research into the future of the architectural book, printed media design anatomies and architectural publishing. Mike has been published and exhibited internationally.