Damon Dusterhoft likes models. “If I’m doing something at my home, I build a little model for my wife and use that as a tool to communicate,” he says. “Sometimes you just can’t see it in a drawing.”
He’s a fan of Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American author and architect who was a passionate proponent for building models to explore project ideas, a concept often lost in the modern age of 3-D printing and AI-assisted renders. “I can hand you a model and you can actually navigate it yourself,” Dusterhoft says. “You can imagine yourself in that space.”
When a client called on a recent Friday afternoon with a last-minute request, Dusterhoft knew what to do. The client was converting a corporate gathering space into a seated theater and wanted ideas. Damon picked up his glue gun and X-Acto knife and went to work. Team members started to gather around. People threw out ideas.
A few picked up scissors.
