建筑模型 “物质化的构想”

Architecture Model "Idea Materialis"

模型是各种学科普遍使用的一种方法,尤其在通过逐步优化迭代来完成目标的领域——譬如建筑学中。相对于模型在建筑实践中的流行,它的理论梳理近乎空白。本文中奥克斯林教授旁征博引地回溯了模型的概念发展和理论沿革,并藉此讨论其之为方法的本质特征。

Model has been a universally adopted method in various disciplines. Its popularity resides in the ability to connect abstract thinking with material world, especially in those areas where goals could be only achieved by incremental improvements, architecture for instance. In contrast to its wide application, model has scarcely received ontological analysis in architectural theories. In this essay, by carefully examining the changing ideas of model in the history of architectural theory, Prof.Oechslin discusses the key characters that allow model to be considered as a method.