Paper the wonder invented around year 200 B.C.

was already being

used in China, then made from silk cloths.
Paper is a fragile mater, but when folded and cut in certain manners
it can become extremely strong and tough. Experiments using paper
sheets, metal and other materials are of significant relevance to any
design activity.
Because of these attributes, folded or cut paper has been used to
learn important lessons about the construction types in the design
education system in 1925. Josef Albers, a famous designer of the Bauhaus
school, was fascinated by the materials properties and potential and
encouraged his students to alter the paper by folding and cutting it at his
Preliminary Bauhaus Courses.
Examples of pop-up cut-outs in architecture origami and origami
constructions, have been created by the Bauhaus students and designers
in 1930.
Modern Origami:
In the second half of the 20th century, the modern approach to
origami explored new possibilities, new bases, by intensifying the
geometric folding methods and modular arrangements. In addition to that,
books about Japanese origami, American or European origami have been
published both in Japanese and in English, with references to diagrams,
extremely important for the folding sequence of a model. The diagrams
represent the model per se, with the purpose of reproducing the entire
sequence. The idea that certain people have the intellectual capability to
attain folding sequences is also typical to modern Origami techniques.