20 Imagined Landscapes: Material Models for Innovation and Discovery

By Trevor Lee

20 Imagined Landscapes explores how physical models shape creative thinking in landscape architecture, architecture, and art. Through essays centered on individual models, contributors reflect on how working with materials such as wood, clay, and metal, alongside emerging fabrication tools, generates ideas, tests spatial relationships, and communicates design intent. The book examines the embodied and iterative nature of model-making as a process grounded in touch, observation, and experimentation rather than linear problem-solving. At a time when digital tools dominate design practice, these essays reaffirm the enduring value of tactile exploration and craftsmanship, revealing physical models as powerful instruments of discovery and storytelling.

Explores model-making strategies across architecture, landscape architecture, and artFeaturing 20 leading voices from both established and emerging practicesIncluding contributions from OLIN, OMA, Studio Gang, MVRDV, and other internationally recognized studios

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3035630062
• ISBN13: 9783035630060
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 208 Pages