Richard Armiger

__NOTOC__Richard Armiger (born Baltimore, Maryland) is an influential professional architectural model maker and founder of Network Modelmakers Ltd, London.

His work has been published widely and examples can be found in museums in Europe and North America including the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Armiger attended Maryland Institute College of Art studying painting and sculpture. In England, he studied industrial design model making at the Kent Institute of Art & Design thereafter settling in the UK.

As consultant Model Coordinator to Crossrail, he helped clarify the project’s complexity to the Parliamentary Select Committee and other laymen.

He has lectured in his field for designers, architects and modelmakers at Chelsea College of Art and Design, Kingston University, the University of Hertfordshire, and the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.

Prior to establishing Network Modelmakers in 1983, he gained experience with Cambridge Seven Associates, Casson Conder and Partners, Wolff Olins, Arup and the BBC. A subsidiary of Network Modelmakers - House Portrait Models - was established in 1999.

Modelmaking for Design Competition

Many London-based architects commission his models for projects of international stature and for architectural design competition. The tally of Armiger's models of design competition projects won by Nicholas Grimshaw Architects alone is significant:
*Caixa Art Gallery, A Coruña, Spain
*National Space Centre, Leicester, UK
*Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Australia
*Enneus Heerma Bridge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*Frankfurt Exhibition Hall, Germany
*Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Missouri, USA

In 2006, his large 4m square model represented the winning entry for Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay competition, won jointly by Grant Associates landscape designers and Wilkinson Eyre architects.

Notable Projects

Museum Projects

Selected Project by locale

References

*Porter,T., Neale,J. (2000). "Architectural Supermodels". Architectural Press. ISBN 0750649283
*Pawley,M. (1993). "Future Systems: The Story of Tomorrow"'. Phaidon. ISBN 0714827673
*Chipperfield,D. (2004). "El Croquis, Nº 120: David Chipperfield (1998-2004)". El Croquis.
*Sudjic,D. (2005). "John Pawson 1995-2005 Pause For Thought". El Croquis.

External links

* [http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/architecture/gal_ex_object.php?id=11&parent=1&object=151&area=2/ RIBA Drawings Collection - model of Villa Stein-de Monzie]
* [http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/10026-popup.html V&A Beauty Collection - Model of Lord Burlington's Villa at Chiswick]
* [http://www.gardensbythebay.org.sg Gardens by the Bay International Design Competition]
* [http://www.networkmodelmakers.com/ Network Modelmakers Ltd]