At first glance, the wooden assemblage, about 2 feet long, could be a work of art—an early experiment by Noguchi, perhaps. But something else is going on; the piece is actually a sequence. The first ...

The built environment represents, for most of us, the background of everyday life, and yet, when we look at a building, we rarely understand what it is made of. In doing so, we also fail to understand ...

A display wall at Radii in Hoboken, New Jersey, shows the range of models built by the shop since it opened in 2000. (Christopher Payne/Esto) Amid all of the ways to make an architectural model ...