Models!

Did a bit of roaming around London on Saturday--from the AA to the Building Centre to the V&A, and spotted these nice models.

Forgive the not so great photos, from top:
-sketch by Richard Rodgers and Norman Foster for a tiny room for Rodgers' wife's parents, in the woods, by the sea. The section is perhaps more lovely at explaining it than the model (following pic)
-little Toyo Ito building(s)
-can't remember about the bridge!
-Peter Eisenman. Of course made of white acrylic.
-models justifying and explaining how to build the Sydney Opera House arcs (Jorn Utzon). Gorgeous, simple and complex at the same time, and cleverly, beautifully presented
-tensegrity model (Bucky Fuller, I think)
-Corbusier, can't remember the name of the building, but reminded me of the Mill Workers House
-Alvaro Siza, this model is gorgeous, and make me desperately want to visit the building--a set of pools and poolside facilities on the coast of Portugal. The model was nearly all sea (or steel standing in for sea) and really showed how the concrete retaining walls and structures became part of the land/sea line.
-the display that the Siza was part of at the AA

Most of these are models of architects first projects, shown at the AA. A few are at the V&A (Corbusier, Utzon, tensegrity),