ARCHITECTURE GUIDES — BUILDINGS, ARCHITECTS & MOVEMENTS

We make architectural models for a living, and you can't model a building honestly without understanding it first. These guides are where that research ends up: the history, the structure, the architects and the arguments behind the buildings we know best. Each one is written in-house, kept up to date, and — where we've made the building — finishes with a model-maker's view of the details that only reveal themselves when you have to recreate them in plaster.

Start with an architect, a movement, or a building. Where a guide has a matching model, you'll find it linked from the page.

Last updated: 2-Nov-26 · New guides are added most months.

Architects

Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Glasgow's singular voice — the Hill House, the School of Art, the Willow Tearooms

Daniel Burnham
Chicago's master planner and the man behind the Flatiron

Ernő Goldfinger
Hungarian-born modernist who gave London Trellick Tower and 2 Willow Road

F.E. Bromige
West London's Art Deco cinema specialist

Le Corbusier
The Five Points, the Villa Savoye, the Unité — modernism's centre of gravity

Marcel Breuer
Bauhaus-trained sculptor of concrete, from furniture to the Breuer Building

Nicholas Hawksmoor
English Baroque's dark star and his London churches

Peter Behrens
The first industrial designer — and the office where modernism was trained

Philip Johnson
From the Glass House to postmodernism's skyline provocations

Walter Gropius
Founder of the Bauhaus, from the Fagus Factory to Dessau

Wells Coates
Engineer-turned-architect behind the Isokon and Embassy Court

Movements & themes

The Bauhaus Movement
The school that reshaped the twentieth century, and the buildings it left behind

Brutalist Architecture
Raw concrete, big ideas, and why the style refuses to die

Brutalist London
The capital's concrete landmarks, from the Barbican to the South Bank

London Underground Architecture
Charles Holden, roundels and the world's most designed railway

Buildings

London

Scotland

Glasgow School of Art

The Hill House, Helensburgh

House for an Art Lover, Glasgow

Willow Tearooms, Glasgow

England beyond London

Embassy Court, Brighton

The Shankly Gates, Liverpool

The Toast Rack, Manchester

United States

Continental Europe

AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin

Bauhaus Dessau

Behrens House, Darmstadt

Cenotaph for Isaac Newton, unbuilt

Fagus Factory, Alfeld

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Moller House, Vienna

Notre-Dame du Haut Ronchamp

Unité d'Habitation, Marseille

Villa Savoye, Poissy

The ancient world

The Pantheon Rome

Monument at Mylasa

Monument at Palmyra

Temple of Artemis the Huntress

From the page to the shelf

Many of the buildings above exist in our catalogue as handmade plaster models, cast in our Sussex workshop. And if the building you care about isn't there, that's what bespoke commissions are for.