Architectural education primarily combines intellectual rigor and practical skills. It is an educational discipline where the students learn to think deeply about the interconnectedness of the culture, the built environment, technology and the creative world of ideas. Architectural education is potentially infinite in its scope and subject matter. Understanding the subject through making physical models has great positive impact on the students, and teaching architecture using the concept of modeling gives scope to teach, and discuss certain aspects of design that cannot be effectively thought or understood otherwise. This paper isan expression of an experiment conducted to examine the impact of making manual model a part of the classwork.

Keywords : Architecture, learning methods, physical modeling, teaching approach.