Wolfgang Knoll - Architectural Models, Second Edition: Construction Techniques

ARCHITECTURAL MODELS

SECOND EDITION

Architectural model, scale 1:33 (plywood base). Building made of pear wood. Elevator volume of soldered brass sections. Railings and stair ramps of soldered lengths of wire. Faades of 1 mm thick acrylic glass with glued-on pear wood sections. Furniture made of solid frosted Plexiglas. Flag of heat-shaped polystyrene film, spray-painted red.
The marks made during construction are deliberately left in place, lending the model the character of avant-garde Soviet architecture.

Originally published as Architektur-Modelle,
2006 Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich

German/English translation by Francesca Rogier

Copyright 2008 by Wolfgang Knoll and Martin Hechinger

ISBN-13: 978-1-932159-96-7

Printed and bound in the U.S.A. Printed on acid-free paper
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Knoll, Wolfgang.

[Architektur-Modelle. English]

Architectural models : construction techniques / by Wolfgang Knoll and
Martin Hechinger. -- 2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-932159-96-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Architectural models--Technique. I. Hechinger, Martin. II. Title.

NA2790.K5913 2007

720.22--dc22

2007043057

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COVER DESIGN Bro Klaus Meyer, Munich - Jan Riemer

SETTING AND LAYOUT a.visus, Michael Hempel, Munich

PHOTO CREDITS: FRONT COVER (see p.83) and

BACK COVER (see pgs. 14 and 114) Hans-Joachim Heyer, Boris Miklautsch

FRONTISPIECE (p. 2) Alexander and Victor Vesnin, Moscow office of the Leningradskaja
Pravda, competition entry, 1924; Model: J. Griepel, Photo: Hans-Joachim Heyer

Agnes Nienhaus, conceptual
design for the Bruckner

Conservatory, Linz