Designing in Real Scale: The Practice and Afterlife of Full-Size Architectural Models from Renaissance to Fascist Italy

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Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2021-04-26 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2021.1876490

C. Conforti, Fabio Colonnese, Maria Grazia D’Amelio, L. Grieco

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Abstract

Abstract Full-size models are powerful and expansive tools required in critical constructive situations and contexts. Part of both sculptural and architectural creative processes, they have been privileged by Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and Bernini, who were architects and sculptors at the same time. Several documented cases of their real-size models reproducing portions of buildings on-site and modified ad libitum (at one’s pleasure) are discussed here. Promoted in major Roman projects, full-size models served many purposes, from testing innovative solutions to public events and political propaganda. In more recent times, they continued to be central to urban, architectural, and artistic works, implicitly intertwined with the production of exhibitions and movies, which were promoted by the fascist party between the 1920s and 1940s in Italy, encouraging and enhancing the media potential of architecture.

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真实尺度设计：从文艺复兴到法西斯意大利的全尺寸建筑模型的实践与后世

摘要全尺寸模型是在关键的建设性情况和背景下所需的强大且可扩展的工具。作为雕塑和建筑创作过程的一部分，它们受到了文艺复兴时期艺术家的青睐，如米开朗基罗和贝尔尼尼，他们同时也是建筑师和雕塑家。这里讨论了几个记录在案的案例，即他们的真实尺寸模型再现了现场建筑的一部分，并随意修改（随心所欲）。在罗马的主要项目中推广，全尺寸模型有很多用途，从测试创新解决方案到公共活动和政治宣传。在最近的时代，它们仍然是城市、建筑和艺术作品的中心，与20世纪20年代至40年代意大利法西斯党推动的展览和电影的制作交织在一起，鼓励和增强了建筑的媒体潜力。

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