This exhibition presents a rare, concentrated view of Jon Lott’s architectural practice through the lens of selected physical models. Lott’s practice spans experimental houses, cultural institutions, and public interventions—each exploring the provisional, the adaptive, and what he terms a reflexive formalism. Models Themselves assembles physical models from across this body of work, including projects featured in his forthcoming Park Books publication, Proximities, such as the Brugge Diptych, Haffenden House, Stump House, and Couple-Lean-Tos.

Presented as the models themselves, each is a scalar rehearsal for what might be. Each reveals proximities between architecture’s parts—wall for a wall, roof for a roof—operating somewhere between representation and description. The exhibition affirms the GSD’s commitment to architecture as a speculative discipline, shaped equally by its built manifestations and the iterative tools that bring them into being.

Jon Lott, Associate Professor of Architecture at the GSD and founding principal of Para Project.

Para Project Team

Jon Lott
Emma Sheffer (MArch ’27)
Nancy Lu (MArch ’27)
Kei Takanami (MArch I ‘25)