Model Making: A Basic Guide

Rating:
Summary: A good guide for my course
Review: A have open an elective course as "Model Making"in EMU at the Faculty of Architecture.This book helps me very much while I was preparing my program and guides me about the course content and outline.I can say that it is a perfect book for both architecture and interior architecture or for any design field.

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Rating:
Summary: A good guide for my course
Review: A have open an elective course as "Model Making"in EMU at the Faculty of Architecture.This book helps me very much while I was preparing my program and guides me about the course content and outline.I can say that it is a perfect book for both architecture and interior architecture or for any design field.

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Rating:
Summary: A
Review: Though the book is probably a good introductory manual for basic modelmaking techniques, its exclusive use of line drawings for all illustrations, "charming" as they may be, I found to be insufficient. For any attempt at modelmaking, it is important to have a good understanding of the look and feel of the materials that one is dealing with, and I feel that the book would have benefited greatly from the insertion of photographs, so that the process of making is also more tangible to the reader. I would not recommend this book to those who wish to take on modelmaking on a more serious level beyond the hobby. I particularily did not enjoy Sutherland's schematic guides for copying existing buildings in her examples. They ignore the complexity of the process that precedes these finalized works.

Rating:
Summary: A
Review: Though the book is probably a good introductory manual for basic modelmaking techniques, its exclusive use of line drawings for all illustrations, "charming" as they may be, I found to be insufficient. For any attempt at modelmaking, it is important to have a good understanding of the look and feel of the materials that one is dealing with, and I feel that the book would have benefited greatly from the insertion of photographs, so that the process of making is also more tangible to the reader. I would not recommend this book to those who wish to take on modelmaking on a more serious level beyond the hobby. I particularily did not enjoy Sutherland's schematic guides for copying existing buildings in her examples. They ignore the complexity of the process that precedes these finalized works.