Architects spend much time and money on models of projects they propose to build. Richard Meier says his firm spent more than $100,000 on its model for the World Trade Center site. “Drawings are abstract and precise – the medium of proportion and detail – and computer modeling engages the cinematic dimension of time, of fluidity, of movement through space. Only models, however, provide the “God’s eye view,” the luxurious sensation that a complex object like a building, or an entire development like the World Trade Center site, can be comprehended as a whole.”