alt Hacker NewsThe paper model houses of Peter Fritz (2013)
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Wow. That's really impressive. Here is more background:
https://magazin.wienmuseum.at/die-387-haeuser-des-peter-frit...
And the virtual exhibition of the museum:
https://sammlung.wienmuseum.at/alben/edb7nhc3tyww8dncp-sonde...
Some of the models contain a rail segment (Märklin etc.). Was he a model train enthousiast and the houses were part of a layout, or did he use the rails just as accessories? Strange that the articles don't say anything about the artist's motivation.
This post made my day. Beautiful.
If this post was interesting to you check my architectural models blog[0]. It’s in zombie mode now but I posted regularly for a decade.
Related: the artist Thomas Demand who builds paper models of all kinds of situations https://thomasdemand.net/selected-work
I wish I, too, could do stuff like that while being unconscious.
Czechs have a good tradition in paper models of architecture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langweil%27s_Model_of_Prague
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Vy%C5%A1kovsk%C3%BD (sadly the article doesn't really do justice to how prolific he was, partial list of models is https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seznam_vyst%C5%99ihov%C3%A1nek...)