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.

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