Periods of economic depression and lack of construction often lead to moments of reflection and reassessment in architecture, and the current European crisis is no exception. As in previous such periods modes of representation come to the fore and it is therefore no surprise that two great European architectural collections are currently hosting exhibitions focussing on architectural models.
In Frankfurt-am-Main, the
German Architecture Museum is hosting
Architectural Model: Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia from
25 May -16 September 2012 There is a short video on current techniques
hereAnd in Rome
MAXXI is hosting
Modelli Models from
19 July - 2 April 2013There is a short video (in Italian) on the exhibition
here
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