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Richard Armiger is a professional Architectural Model-Maker and founder of Network Modelmakers He is also the Director of House Portrait Models, which creates hand-crafted model portraits for private estates.

His creative and influential^[1] architectural models have been published widely and examples can be found in museums in Europe and North America including the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Architecture Room at the annual Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show, and regularly at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

His architectural consultancy models, for John Pawson, Zaha Hadid, the late Jan Kaplicky and others, have appeared frequently at London's Design Museum. The Design Museum's exhibition David Chipperfield - Form Matters, which has been transferred to the Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Coruña, Spain and other world venues during 2010-2012,^[7]^[8] contained a large selection of his models including Sir David's shortlisted Tate Gallery entry.

Early career and education

Armiger attended the Maryland Institute College of Art near Roland Park, studying painting and sculpture.{{When|date=December 2018}} In Britain, he studied industrial design model making at the University for the Creative Arts{{When|date=December 2018}} thereafter settling in England in 1983.^[9]

Prior to establishing Network Modelmakers London, he was mentored by the Boston, USA designers at Cambridge Seven Associates. The architects and graphic designers at Cambridge Seven, in collaboration with Buckminster Fuller, designed the USA pavilion at Montreal’s Expo 67, their highest profile project from that era. [9]

In the UK, his first employer was the Festival of Britain chief architect Sir Hugh Casson of Casson [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/14/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Conder] and Partners. Further design experience was gained at the BBC, Wolff Olins and at the timber model shop within the Arup engineering consultancy.[9]

Architectural competition models

Many London-based architects commission his models for projects of international stature and for architectural design competition.^[10]^[11]^[12] The tally of Armiger's models of design competition projects won by Nicholas Grimshaw Architects alone is significant:^[13]

In 2006, Armiger and his team developed a model measuring 4 meters square that became the winning entry for Singapore's Gardens by the Bay competition, won jointly by Grant Associates landscape designers and Wilkinson Eyre architects.

Crossrail models and consultancy

As consultant Model Coordinator to Crossrail, Richard Armiger helped clarify the project's complexity to the Parliamentary Select Committee and other design laymen.^[14]

Models for Modernists and contemporary architects

Le Corbusier

Jan Kaplicky

David Chipperfield

Models of historic buildings

Westminster Abbey

Notable projects

Museum projects

Villas and manorial homes

Other selected projects by locale

References

1. ^page 5.S, Design Week, 6 May 2009
2. ^http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/10026-popup.html
3. ^http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/architecture/gal_ex_object.php?id=11&parent=1&object=151&area=2/
4. ^El Croquis 127: John Pawson 1995-2005 - Pause for Thought, 2006
5. ^El Croquis 87+120: David Chipperfield 1991-2006, 2007
6. ^pages, 37, 70, 190, In/Ex Terior: The Works of Eva Jiricna, 2006
7. ^^ pages 6, 7, 8, 13, 23, 27, 335-339, 341, 342, David Chipperfield: Architectural Works 1990-2002, Jonathan Keates, 2003, RA works credited
8. ^^ http://www.fbarrie.org/fundacion/ingles/home.htm
9. ^{{cite book|last=Architectural Supermodels: Physical Design Simulation |author2=Tom Porter |author3=John Neale|year=2000|page=96}}
10. ^{{cite book|last=Architectural Supermodels: Physical Design Simulation |author2=Tom Porter |author3=John Neale|year=2000|pages=99–102}}
11. ^{{cite book|last=Contemporary British Architects|author2=Peter Murray |author3=Robert Maxwell |year=1994|pages=32, 37, 39, 58, 62, 65, 70, 96, 100, 136, 166}}
12. ^{{cite book|last=Pearman|first=Hugh |others=RA works un-credited|title=Equilibrium: The Work of Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners|year=2000|pages=43, 123, 172, 174, 211, 226, 235}}
13. ^{{cite book|last=Powell|first=Kenneth|others=RA works credited|title=Culture of Building: The Architecture of John McAslan & Partners|year=2004|pages=99–102}}
14. ^{{cite book|last=Building Design|date=28 May 2004|pages=8–11}}