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In 1923, H.P. Berlage travelled to the Dutch East Indies. When he published his book about the journey, Mijn Indische Reis (Berlage 1931), he included only 36 of the 60 drawings - almost all originally in color but printed in black and white. The original drawings, preserved at the Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, the Dutch Institute of Architecture, were published in part by this institution under the title De indische reis van H.P. Berlage (Berlage & Molenaar 1993) in a box with 46 color reproductions on laid paper. The drawings of the trip included in this article correspond to this latter work. They are apparently very simple drawings, almost all produced with colored chalk, with a freedom and stroke fluidity that contrasts considerably with his “canonical" drawings which, despite their extraordinary quality, are conventional. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the use of little models in the pedagogy of teaching Graphic Expression, notably in the Analysis of Architectural Forms. In order to verify the effectiveness of this already tested method, the authors expound several processes of making models from some twentieth century architects, contrasting the opinion on analytical models from various authors, and simultaneously relating the making of models in architecture and in other contemporary art objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]