ABSTRACT
In the introduction the author introduces the topic of full scale mockups through the examples of two historical projects, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1936 full scale column mockup for the S.C.Johnson + Wax administration building in Racine, Wisconsin, and Mies Van der Rohe’s 1912 full scale mockup for the Kroller Muller Villa, in the Netherlands. The author examines the unique differences between the two mockups, as a way of understanding a better definition for mockups, with two seemingly different objectives evident in the examples. Beyond these two important works, the author attempts to expand and articulate a definition by comparing a mockup to the received definitions of drawings and buildings, arguing that they are a hybrid form, with the unique qualities of both.
