An architectural model is a three-dimensional sculptural representation of a building, part of a building, or part of a construction. The term “model” is derived via the Italian modello from the Latin modulus, and refers to the usual scale reduction (Latin modus, “measure”; modulus, “small measure”). Architectural models are usually made of wood, more rarely of clay, cardboard, paper, stone, plaster, cork, metal, or wax. In principle, however, any shapeable material of reasonable durability will do. The Florentine architect Filippo Brun…