Architectural firms are increasingly adopting 3D printing to produce scale models faster, with greater precision, and at lower cost than traditional handcrafting. Technologies like SLA, FDM, SLS, and ...

For 35 years, Columbian Model & Exhibit Works has given the city glimpses of the future. The River West company designed and built architectural models for developers and architects that provided an ...

A single architectural model can represent hundreds of hours of work and hard-won solutions to complex design problems. It’s one reason organizers say an exhibit of architectural models has struck a ...

Kwong Von Glinow isn’t afraid to uplift the mundane. Based in Chicago, the studio finds inspiration and freedom in historic templates of development. AN’s Executive Editor Jack Murphy spoke with ...

As lockdown provided architects with the opportunity to reflect on their design processes, it prompted Morris + Company founder, Joe Morris, to create On reflection, a series of short films discussing ...

Architectural modeling is undergoing a transformation as 3D printing enables faster, more precise, and cost-effective creation of intricate scale models directly from digital designs. By replacing ...

At first glance, the wooden assemblage, about 2 feet long, could be a work of art—an early experiment by Noguchi, perhaps. But something else is going on; the piece is actually a sequence. The first ...

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