Thomas Demand gives a Mellon lecture describing the limitations but also the strange pre-eminence of models as artefacts. The artist, who has presented mid-career retrospectives at both MOMA and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, argues that whilst models describe a fragment of our surroundings, it is difficult to prove them wrong.
10 October 2013
Thomas Demand: Models of Perception
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Thomas Demand gives a Mellon lecture describing the limitations but also the strange pre-eminence of models as artefacts. The artist, who has presented mid-career retrospectives at both MOMA and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, argues that whilst models describe a fragment of our surroundings, it is difficult to prove them wrong.
articles
Models Talk
model, models, video, c/o Tokyo, Kazuko Akamatsu, Kumiko Inui, Erika Nakagawa, Studio Gross, Kayoko Ota
20 December 2021
Models Talk
Kazuko Akamatsu, Kumiko Inui, and Erika Nakagawa lead us through recently completed and in-progress work
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The architectural model offers a means by which architectural ideas can be shared among architects, builders, and interested laymen. The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec demonstrates a certain variety in functions ascribed to wooden architectural models around 1850. Witness to an era that saw architectural practice developing a heightened(...)
Octagonal gallery
18 May 1994 to 11 September 1994
The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec
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The architectural model offers a means by which architectural ideas can be shared among architects, builders, and interested laymen. The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec demonstrates a certain variety in functions ascribed to wooden architectural models around 1850. Witness to an era that saw architectural practice developing a heightened(...)
Octagonal gallery
Shaughnessy House
31 July 2014 , 6PM
Shaughnessy House
articles
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Davide Deriu
Photography and the Architectural Model, ca. 1919-1939
9 August 2007
events
Shaughnessy House
16 July 2009
events
16 July 2009
Shaughnessy House
drawings
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28 presentation drawing(s)
DR1995:0280:577-604
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views of models, life-size models, and perspective sketch, perspective renderings, including some originals with airbrushing, and perspective views
Views of models, life-size models, and perspective sketch
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DR1995:0280:577-604
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views of models, life-size models, and perspective sketch, perspective renderings, including some originals with airbrushing, and perspective views
drawings
Quantity:
28 presentation drawing(s)
models
DR2004:0663
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Models and prototypes
AP165.S3
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Models and prototypes of deployable and folded objects. Includes origami and other folding prototypes, toy prototypes, medical-related implements, and machined components.
1986-2003
Models and prototypes
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AP165.S3
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Models and prototypes of deployable and folded objects. Includes origami and other folding prototypes, toy prototypes, medical-related implements, and machined components.
Series 3
1986-2003