a stitch into a room

I arrived at Textile Arts in September with a vague challenge from a teaching colleague. "How would you make a stitch a room?"  What that lead me to was embroidering a series of rooms that investigate notions found in 18th century feminist studies but it also made me attack notions of decorative arts, patterns, flowers and colonial architecture that are considered "bad" form with you are a practicing architect.  What I walked into that I did not anticipate was that the medium of model making was a very charged construct in the art world. For designers and architects its a testing ground a way to experiment; in the art world there seems to be a set notion of the miniature and what it garners emotionally. This article found in Architect's Newpaper explains that a model is an uncomfortable condition because it sits in between idea and representation. Some say the point of art is to present the uncomfortable, even its as well meaning as a model with flowered walls and floors.