ABSTRACT
If you are innovating, you are dealing with new concepts, ideas and techniques. As an architect you are honour-bound to your client to understand the new and its implications, to do your homework and prepare as well as possible if you intend to question the rules and move architecture forward in some way. Where innovation in architecture occurs there is an implicit requirement for the architect to resort to experimentation, dedicated shepherding, continuous love and care, testing, mocking-up and going back again and again to get things right. Mock-ups are required in order to explain and demonstrate, to learn, refine, tune and to achieve the right overall assembly and performance.
