About Micromosa

Micromosa is a project by Tobias Johnston to create detailed, affordable architectural models of buildings from all over Taiwan, to promote an architectural heritage that is often little known on both the national and international levels, and bring these impressive buildings to the attention of the wider world.

The idea for this came after exploring the length and breadth of the island and it’s outlying territories, encountering countless examples of interesting structures worthy of documentation and preservation – in memory at least if not in reality. As areas are regenerated, many of these will be lost in time, and indeed, some of the larger counterparts of these models have already vanished and the land reclaimed, now bereft of any sign of what once stood there.

The structures in this collection have been meticulously designed to be as accurate as possible based on field visits, both comtemporary and historic photographs, satellite data, and in some cases, from original architectural drawings, though they shouldn’t necessarily be treated as exact scale-model replicas. Where information is lacking, details have sometimes had to be invented and inferred based on existing knowledge of similar buildings, or standard architectural practices of the time, but hopefully they’re close enough that they can evoke the same feelings as the actual buildings themselves.