At his apartment in Miracle Mile, Kieran Wright can visit some of Los Angeles’ most beloved buildings from the comfort of his couch. As a small-scale artist, the 29-year-old’s shelves and walls boast ...

Miniatures are full of bite-sized portions of our world and lives. By transcending spatial norms, models envision and measure real-world size and performance. They help to understand the cultural and ...

Using the skills of a military strategist combined with the artistry of recreating a battle scene, John Ford creates such scenes in small-scale models as dioramas. They are now on display under glass ...

A model of a Lockheed Constellation built from a non-standard scales nearly 60 years old. Back then, most models were designed to fit a very specific box size. [Courtesy: Terry Moore] Scale modeling, ...

Christopher Petersen often describes what he does as “building memories.” Petersen, 63, lives in Colorado but grew up in Park Ridge, in a white house on Washington Street. That house has seen some ...

Earthquakes and other stressors on buildings pose a threat to their structural integrity that endangers human life. It is effective to be able to calculate the behavior of buildings and test with ...