This article is focused on comparing the differences between these three terms: models, prototypes and archetypes in our contemporary era. We are in the time when digital design and fabrication play the increasingly large proportion in the design process. Mary Burry speaks highly of the digital fabrication which can expand the realm of industry and imagination in the long run, just like steam machine and printing. Burry gives us an example of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Church, by which he showed us the dilemma of model versus prototype. Burry tends to believe that models are constructed to test the construction or appearance of building, on the other hand, prototype are created with the purpose of creating better design ideas. He also believes the probability of models to develop into the prototype.
As far as I can see, we are very living in the time of digital design. Compared to Gaudi, we can consider using the second order geometrical surfaces in ways that Gaudi could never imagine in his wildest dreams. We are able to focus on design itself and creating more complicated geometries. In a word, it is a time of great freedom for designers.
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