There is a persistent assumption that architectural models are now simply printed. Send the file, press a button, collect the building. Anyone who has stood in a working model workshop knows how far that is from reality. Printing is one tool among several, and on most projects it accounts for a minority of the finished object. Understanding how the technologies actually divide the work makes...

Walk down any aisle at a trade show in Dubai and the skyline you'll see isn't made of buildings, it's made of curved fabric graphics stretched across aluminium frames, one stand after another, each one trying to catch a passing visitor's eye for the two or three seconds it takes to walk past. The pop up stand has become so standard at these events...