Architectural model | Types | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 9 objects of this type

in the form of a Renaissance chapel abutting a brick building behind it, the chapel's front portico of single story, with three arches raised on double columns, surmounted by a single window in the wall, below an open triangular pediment, the back building with three roof tops.

Renaissance Church Architectural Model, 1600–1700
cut, carved and molded wood with carved, painted and gessoed decoration.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2014-39-5

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Model in the form of the Temple of Nike Apteros on the Acropolis in Athens (original 456 BC) with Ionic columns in front of rusticated walls above three steps with plain pendiment surmounted at the ends and center by anthemia.

Temple of Nike Apteros Architectural Model, designed 1996; executed 2005
various woods,including carved and joined mahogany (base, architrave and....
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2014-39-4

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

depicting the temple in its semi-ruined state as visible in the 18th and early nineteenth centuries, showing the circular section building with columns ringing a central core, supporting an upper moulding

Temple of Vesta, Tivoli Architectural Model, 1810–30
pressed, carved, and cut cork with wood base.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2014-39-2

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

the circular building with rusticated lower tier supporting set back upper tier with double columns between window bays, alternating blind and paned windows, surmounted by a domed top with finials around and a spire above, all replicating the Radcliffe Camera building in Oxford England.

Radcliffe Camera Architectural Model, late 18th–mid-19th century
carved, gessoed, and painted wood, sheet glass.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2014-39-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Sudbury Hall Architectural Model

Sudbury Hall Architectural Model
stained pine.
2013-3-5

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Model in the form of a seventeenth century Venetian palazzo.

Venetian Palazzo Architectural Model, late 17th–18th century
ivory, wood.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2013-3-4

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Model with openwork columns in cross shape on steps, supporting round colonnade on a second tier with spire above

Columned Structure Architectural Model, 1993
carved, turned, and veneered pear, walnut, satinwood, and other woods.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2013-3-3

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

In the form of an Italian Renaissance octagonal chapel with domed roof above two stories of windows within pediments on columns.

Baptistry or Church Architectural Model, 1782
carved and turned bone veneer, gilt metal, wood.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2013-3-2-a,b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Model of garden with trellised gazebo, terrace, hedges, balustrades, etc.

Garden of the Childs Frick Estate, Rosalyn, New York Architectural Model, ca....
cardboard, paper, paint.
Gift of Newton P. Bevin.
1972-40-7

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.