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Werner, M., 2011. Model Making, New York, N.Y: Princeton Architectural Press.

Megan Weber. She is the founder of zDp Models, a San Francisco -based model making firm working for a range of clients in the bay area and beyond. This includes Apple, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, SOM, Gensler and EDAW.

The book is designed as a basic reader guide to model making and model material introduction. -- UrbanTick

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Architects' models at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

The collections hold around  300 architects' models, including some additional material relating to the V&A's ongoing FuturePlan  development of the museum buildings by a wide range of architects. These are the most recently acquired architects' models - the oldest is a design model belonging to RIBA, for Nicholas Hawksmoor's grand house, Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, made in the 1690s. -- official web site

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Modernism in Miniature:Points of View Exhibition At the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) 22 September 2011 to 8 January 2012, Octagonal Gallery

Modernism in Miniature: Points of View explores the encounter between photography and model-making between 1920-1960. It focuses on model photography as a distinctive genre and suggests that the so-called ‘model boom’ was inextricably bound up with the explosion of modern mass media. -- CCA

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Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales Exhibition At the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) 27 September 2007 to 3 February 2008, Octagonal Gallery

The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality.  -- CCA

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Richard Meier’s Model Museum in Long Island City Reopens

The space occupies 3600-square feet and features works from the 1960’s to the present.

Visitors were first invited into the space informally in May 2007.  

Tours of the gallery are by appointment only and last approximately 45 minutes. Appointments can be made through Richard Meier & Partners Architects: modelmuseum@richardmeier.com. The model museum is closed to the public during the winter months due to the climate’s impact on the models. -- ArchDaily

Read more from architect's web site
Richard Meier Model Museum Opens at Mana Contemporary -- ArchDaily
VIDEO: The Models of Richard Meier -- ArchDaily 

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Broccoli House by Brock Davis

I couldn't build a tree house for my son so I built him a broccoli house instead. -- Brock Davis

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Chinese Artist Creates Edible Model of Shanghai

Song Dong, one of China’s leading contemporary artist has almost completed a miniature replica of Shanghai City, made out of various sweets. Song apparently has a thing for recreating major cities out of food, as this is the seventh project in his “Eating the City” series, which includes sweet replicas of Barcelona or London. -- LikePage

Iconic Museums, Rendered In Gingerbread

Levin and Hargreaves conceived of the gingerbread creations for this year’s Art Basel. With the help of Dylan’s Candy Bar, the pair fashioned a line of not-so-cookie-cutter facsimiles of iconic museums. -- Metropolis

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Toothpick City by Stan Munro

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A Castle On the Ocean-Glowing Paper Castle by Wataru Itou

Wataru Itou (伊藤航) is a Japanese student in a Tokyo art university with an amazing piece of work: this paper castle, titled “Umi no Ue no Oshiro” (A Castle On the Ocean) took four years to complete, and the level of intricacy in the structure makes it a true masterpiece. There are so many layers and structures in the piece that when it is lit up from below, different shades of color glow through the paper in a beautiful display of architecture and craftsmanship. -- JeannieJeannie

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Slide City Exhibition

In the 70′s Oslo’s own “Man in Black”, Professor of Architecture Per Kartvedt , started his long lasting lecture series on cities, communities, myths and dreams.

Slide City is an installation consisting of small high-rises, lit from the inside, with 2000 of Per’s legendary slides as windows.  -- ArchDaily

The very model of a (LEGO) architect; Using a childhood toy, Adam Reed Tucker has built a career as the creative force behind Lego's Architecture Series -- Cityscape

Source: Architects Teehouse + Tsukihashi Laboratory at Kobe University archdaily.com

‘Lost Homes Project – Restoring by Models’ by Architects Teehouse + Tsukihashi Laboratory at Kobe University

A collaborative effort by Architects Teehouse and the Tsukihashi Laboratory at Kobe University, ‘Lost Homes Project – Restoring by Models’ aims at lamenting lost towns and considering the disaster and the damaged areas brought about by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Damaged areas were looked at dreadful circumstances, and the original sites were flowed away by Tsunamis, especially lots of areas on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Tohoku. Since 2011, their project has consisted of restoring damaged towns and villages, especially the coastal areas devastated by the following terrible tsunamis, by 1:500 scale models. -- ArchDaily

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LEGO project depicts downtown Tampa's buildings

The Greater Florida Lego Users Group project features City Hall and many other buildings. The LEGOs also depict the boats moored behind the Tampa Convention Center, buildings with rooftop gardens, satellite dishes, helipads and wind socks. -- clickorlando