Model-Making Resources

Here is a list of art supply stores around Sydney that will have all kinds of modelling supplies:

Artlink Art Supplies
3 Chard Rd Brookvale
ph: (02) 9939 7633

Art Smart Discount Art Supplies
50 Ethel St Seaforth
ph: (02) 9949 7477

Art On King
199- 201 King St Newtown
ph: (02) 9516 2342

Bondi Road Art Supplies
179-181 Bondi Rd Bondi
ph: (02) 9387 3746

Burwood Art Supplies
246 Burwood Rd Burwood
ph: (02) 9747 6222

Campus Art Store
Cnr Greens Rd & Napier St Paddington
ph: (02) 9331 7474

Eckersley’s
2- 8 Phillip St Parramatta
ph: 1800 227 116

Eckersley’s
88 Walker St North Sydney
ph: (02) 9957 5678

Eckersley’s
93 York St Sydney
ph: (02) 9299 4151

Eckersley’s
21 Atchison St St Leonards
ph: (02) 9439 4944

Janet’s Art Supplies
145 Victoria Ave Chatswood
ph: (02) 9417 8572

Hurstville Art & Drafting Supplies
23 MacMahon St Hurstville
ph: (02) 9570 4138

North Shore Art Supplies
10 George St Hornsby
ph: (02) 9476 0202

Oxford Art Supplies
221- 225 Oxford St Darlinghurst
ph: (02) 9360 4066

Parkers Art Supply
3 Cambridge St The Rocks
ph: (02) 9247 9979

The Art Scene
912 - 914 Victoria Rd West Ryde
ph: (02) 9807 6900


Parker's is like a little heaven, Sydney's original art store, if you have a little money to splash around...
The Art Scene at West Ryde is truly fantastic with everything you could possibly need...
Eckersleys are generally pretty rude (but not as bad as Oxford), but they do have quite a bit of stuff (especially St Leonards).
Then there's places like Reverse Garbage at Marrickville - this place has all kinds of junk that is useful for model-making.

And here are a range of books that might be useful - it's the reading list for my model-making elective this semester:

James Angus, James Angus, Sydney: MCA, 2006.

James Angus, Mikala Dwyer, Emily Floyd, Ronnie Van Hout, Ricky Swallow, Still Life: The Inaugural Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Sydney: AGNSW, 2003.

Tim Hawkinson, Tim Hawkinson, Sydney: MCA, 2007.

Wolfgang Knoll and Martin Hechinger, Architectural Models: Construction Techniques, London: BT Batsford, 1992.
Criss Mills, Designing With Models: A Studio Guide to Making and Using Architectural Design Models, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Karen Moon, Modelling Messages: The Architect and the Model, New York: Monacelli Press, 2005.

Toshiko Mori (ed.), Immaterial, Ultramaterial: Architecture, Design and Materials, New York: Harvard Design School and George Braziller, 2002.

Callum Morton, More Talk About Buildings and Mood, Exhibition Catalogue, Sydney: MCA 2006.

National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition 2005, Canberra: NGA, 2005.

Susan Norrie, Daniel von Sturmer, Callum Morton, Venice Biennale 2007 Australia, Sydney: Australia Council for the Arts, 2007.

Tom Porter and John Neale, Architectural Supermodels, Oxford: Architectural Press, 2000.

Verlag Anton Pustet, Scale Models of the 20th Century, Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhauser, 1999.

Albert Smith, Architectural Model as Machine, Oxford: Architectural Press, 2004.
Martha Sutherland, Modelmaking: A Basic Guide, New York: W W Norton & Co, 1999.

Sophia Vyzoviti, Supersurfaces: Folding as a method of generating forms for architecture, products and fashion, Corte Madera: Gingko Press, 2006.

Sophia Vyzoviti, Folding Architecture: Spatial, Strucutral and Organisational Diagrams, Corte Madera: Gingko Press, 2003.


AND if you're really keen, which you ought to be, then go to S:\Resources\samples\Arch\BENV2315 Architectural Model Making – Ainslie
on the FBE server - look at IMAGE LIBRARY for lots of photos of interesting models - you're bound to find some inspiration in there!

Looks like we're [finally] up and running. We're just missing a few people - please email your blog address to me as soon as you can. AND, if you've still got all your first year stuff on your blog, please archive it so we're not all wading through the past. For now, please post some images of the first project. You'll then need to keep your blog up to date with current images, thoughts, [very small] bits of text for the rest of the session.