Notes on architectural modelling.

Working out what a modelling tool for practising architects ought to be. Drafts of chapters from Models That Matter.

1. Post 002

   The shape of an architectural artefact

   Every architectural artefact lives in a two-dimensional space of formality and detail — and the work of architecture is moving through it. Why existing tools fight that movement, and what a quadrant-native tool looks like.

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2. Post 001

   Why create models?

   Most architects can describe how they model in detail — the notation, the tool, the metamodel. Fewer can say why. Seven distinct reasons architects model, and the trap of building tools for only one of them.

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