Workshop – The Architectural Model: Across Histories and Disciplines

The exhibition Zaha Hadid: Paper Museums focuses on paper relief models as important design and presentation tools, and a unique materiality within the Zaha Hadid Foundation’s collection. Made when Zaha Hadid Architects used both analogue and digital creative methods during the late 1990s and early 2000s, the prevalence of reliefs and paper models at this time seems particularly significant, anticipating new technological possibilities for modelling complex volumes and curves.

This workshop seeks to address the significance of models within architecture from the twentieth century to contemporary practice. Topics of discussion may include the importance of physical concept, design and presentation models in the digital age; the use of abstraction, fine art or craft techniques in architectural model making; the boundaries between reliefs, sculpture and models; the importance of paper and card for model making, along with the exhibition and display of models, and their history and future within archives and collections, including museums and architectural practices.

Speakers include:
Ellie Sampson, model maker and paper cut artist
Matthew Wells, Manchester School of Architecture, University of Manchester
SimpsonHaugh Architects
Mark Garcia, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Olivia Horsfall-Turner, RIBA

Speakers will present on their work individually, followed by a roundtable discussion.