EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE MODELS

Three thousand years of building, from the Roman Pantheon to Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao. Europe's architectural history is longer, stranger and more layered than anywhere else on earth — and our European collection attempts, across two pages, to do some justice to it.

The German buildings form a particularly strong thread. The Fagus Factory and the Bauhaus Dessau, both by Walter Gropius, and the AEG Turbine Factory by Peter Behrens and the Behrens House in Darmstadt chart the origins of modern architecture with unusual precision — these are the buildings that changed everything, and they are all here. Alongside them, Adolf Loos's Moller House in Vienna, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Notre-Dame du Haut, the Colosseo Quadrato in Rome, Helsinki Central Station, and Herengracht 168 in Amsterdam represent the full sweep of European Modernism and what came before and after it.

The cityscape maps — Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Florence, Frankfurt, Paris, Rome, Venice and more — offer a different scale entirely.

Every model in this collection is made by hand in our West Sussex studio.