Model as Performance

<i>The Model as Performance</i> investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present from a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm that explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. It provides a comprehensive historical context and theoretical framework for theatre scholars scenographers artists and architects interested in the model's reality-producing capacity and its recent emergence in contemporary art practice and exhibition. For the undergraduate student it provides a historical survey of the model and to the postgraduate student it opens up a new methodological approach. <br/><br/>Introducing a typology of the scale model beyond the iterative and the representative model the authors identify the autonomous model as a provocative construction between past and present idea and reality that challenges and redefines the relationship between object viewer and environment. Case studies include Brunelleschi's dome models and Bel Geddes' <i>Futurama</i> Mies van der Rohe's mock ups and Zumthor's atmospheric models Anna Viebrock's life size boxes and Herzog & de Meuron's miniature styrofoam exhibits.