Richard Armiger is a professional architectural model maker and the founder of Network Modelmakers. He is the Director of House Portrait Models, a brand established in 1998 within the studio to market handcrafted ‘model portraits’ of private homes and estates.
His architectural models have been published worldwide and examples can be found in museums in the UK and internationally, 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.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Armiger’s architectural consultancy models, for John Pawson, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw Architects, and the late Jan Kaplický have appeared frequently in architectural exhibitions worldwide.
The 2009 Design Museum's exhibition David Chipperfield - Form Matters,[6] [7] contained a selection of his models, including Sir David's shortlisted Tate Modern entry.
Armiger attended the Maryland Institute College of Art near Roland Park, studying painting and sculpture. In Britain, he studied industrial design model making at the University for the Creative Arts thereafter settling in England in 1983.[8]
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 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]
Many London-based architects commission his models for projects of international stature and for architectural design competition.[9] [10] [11] The tally of Armiger's models of design competition projects won by Nicholas Grimshaw Architects alone is significant:[12]
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.
As consultant Model Coordinator to Crossrail, Richard Armiger helped clarify the project's complexity to the Parliamentary Select committee and other design laymen.[13]
| 1 | Earl of Burlington | Victoria & Albert Museum | ||
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| 2 | Joseph Paxton | Victoria & Albert Museum | ||
| 3 | Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp | Le Corbusier | Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo | |
| 4 | Villa Stein-de Monzie, Garches | Le Corbusier | Royal Institute of British Architects drawings collection | |
| 5 | Queen's House | Inigo Jones | National Maritime Museum | |
| 6 | Lockhart Saatchi House concept | David Chipperfield | Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh | |
| 7 | Villa Müller, Prague | Adolf Loos | Museum of Modern Art, Oxford |
| 1 | Alderbrook Park, | by Pringle Richards Sharratt, | Lakshmi Mittal | Kingdom of Kent | Pringle Richards Sharratt | http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2086721_indian_billionaires_plans_for_country_estate |
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| 2 | Wootton Lodge, | Timothy Hatton, | confidential | Wootton Lodge | ||
| 3 | Caring Wood, Kent, | by ROA, MacDonald Wright, | confidential | Kingdom of Kent | http://www.ruralofficeforarchitecture.co.uk/pdfs/project_2_pdf.pdf | http://macdonaldwright.com/?portfolio=caring-wood |
| 4 | Henbury Rotonda | by Julian Bicknell | for Sebastian de Ferranti | Henbury Hall, Cheshire | Julian Bicknell | Sebastian de Ferranti |
| 5 | Sonning House | by Gregory Phillips | confidential | Sonning | http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/berkshire-home-given-green-light/3107029.article | |
| 6 | Ceasaria House | by Fairfax and Sammons | confidential |
| North America | ||||
| 1 | 42nd Street, New York City (project) | Zaha Hadid | ||
| 2 | San Francisco Trans Bay Terminal | Richard Rogers | ||
| 3 | Silvercup Studios, NYC | Richard Rogers | ||
| 4 | Menil Collection, Houston, Texas | Renzo Piano, Arup engineers | Architecture d'aujourd'hui, No.219 | |
| 5 | 50 Gramercy Park North, NYC, USA (for hotelier Ian Schrager) | |||
| Europe, Japan | ||||
| 6 | Hôtel du département des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille, France | Will Alsop & Jan Störmer | ||
| 7 | Vitra Headquarters (project) | Eva Jiřičná | ||
| 8 | Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris | Yamanaka Armstrong | ||
| 9 | De Hoftoren Tower, The Hague, Netherlands | Kohn Pedersen Fox | ||
| 10 | Amstelzicht Tower, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Skidmore, Owings and Merrill | ||
| 11 | Atlantic Pavilion Stadium, Lisbon, Portugal | Skidmore, Owings and Merrill | ||
| 12 | Corrubedo House, Galicia, Spain | David Chipperfield | ||
| 13 | Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany | David Chipperfield | ||
| 14 | David Chipperfield | |||
| 15 | St Catherine's College, Kobe Institute, Japan | Troughton McAslan | ||
| 16 | Foster + Partners | |||
| United Kingdom | ||||
| 17 | Eden Project, Cornwall | Nicholas Grimshaw | ||
| 18 | Rolls-Royce Factory, Goodwood, West Sussex | Nicholas Grimshaw | ||
| 19 | Glyndebourne Opera House, West Sussex | Michael Hopkins and Partners | ||
| 20 | Richard Rogers | |||
| 21 | Stratford International Eurostar Station | Hawkins/ Brown | ||
| 22 | Henbury Rotonda, Cheshire | Julian Bicknell | ||
| 23 | River & Rowing Museum, Oxfordshire | David Chipperfield | ||
| 24 | Ascot Racecourse, Berkshire | John McAslan and Partners + HOK | Building, issue 48, 2000 | |
| 25 | Stonehenge Visitors Centre, Salisbury | Denton Corker Marshall | ||
| Oxbridge | ||||
| 26 | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge | NBBJ | ||
| 27 | Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford | Hawkins/ Brown | ||
| 28 | St Catherine's College, Oxford (hall of residence) | Stephen Hodder | ||
| 29 | Rothermere American Institute, Oxford | Kohn Pendersen Fox | ||
| 30 | Saïd Business School, Oxford | Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones + BDP | ||
| 31 | Merton College, Oxford | Allies and Morrison | ||
| 32 | Cambridge Institute of Criminology | Allies and Morrison | ||
| London | ||||
| 33 | Louise T Blouin Institute | Borgos Dance | ||
| 34 | Albion Riverside, Battersea | Foster + Partners | ||
| 35 | Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, British Museum | Foster + Partners | ||
| 36 | The Roundhouse | John McAslan + Partners | ||
| 37 | Imperial War Museum | Arup architects | (94) | |
| 38 | Southbank Centre Masterplan | Rick Mather | ||
| 39 | Millennium Dome, Greenwich | Richard Rogers + Imagination Group | ||
| 40 | Ismaili Centre, South Kensington | Casson Conder | ||
| 41 | Goldsmiths, University of London | Will Alsop | ||
| 42 | Royal Society of Arts, Great Room | John McAslan + Partners | ||
| 43 | Westbourne Studios | Nick and Simon Kirkham | ||
| 44 | Underground house, Notting Hill | Michaelis Boyd | ||
| 45 | House at Highgate Cemetery | Eldridge Smerin | ||
| 46 | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones | ||
| 47 | 30 Finsbury Square | Eric Parry | ||
| Projects | ||||
| 48 | Halley Research Station 6, Antarctica | Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands | ||
| 49 | Celebrity Solstice | Francis Design | ||
| 50 | Olivetti Hypo-Bank | David Chipperfield | ||
| 51 | Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadlers Wells | Wolff Olins | ||
| 52 | Project 112, Coexistence Tower | Future Systems | ||
| 53 | Project 113, Donut House | Future Systems | ||
| 54 | Champagne Krug Pavilion | Pentagram | ||
| 55 | Solar Seed House | Ross Lovegrove |