Lloyd's 1:1 - The Currency of the Architectural Mock-Up

Richard Rogers + Partners • gta Verlag • ISBN-13 9783856764128

ISBN-10 1772068721 • 2021

Canonical book record

ISBN 9783856764128 • Completeness 51

Cover quality: low resolution

Description

Constructed in the early 1980s, the Lloyd’s Building in London is one of the most significant architectural projects of the late modern era. Based on a design by Richard Rogers + Partners, it transformed concepts of the megastructure and the intelligent environment into built reality. Mock-ups, or full-size models, played a crucial role in the building’s design process, as they enabled the testing and refinement of novel constructions, thereby minimising the risks of this ambitious project. From the archives of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Josef Gartner, and Arup, this book reconstructs the working methods to show how mock-ups were used as research and planning tools.