No, not even close. Even in design school. Less than 0.01% of all architectural designs get physical models made; it's time consuming and its expensive. Only 2

No, not even close. Even in design school. Less than 0.01% of all architectural designs get physical models made; it's time consuming and its expensive. Only 2 reasons I've ever seen them done in firms - large urban / public space (politics) projects or clients who have money and can't imagine a 3d building from a set of drawings ("spatially deficient"). That stated, I do know one coffee-table architect who has many models for every project - he prefers sketch models (paper, usually) to sketching.