Yes, 100 years Bauhaus. That's why two comics are now coming out that deal with architects: Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. They are, not entirely surprising, drawn by people who are also architects. But - there was something else, just now: "The Magnet", about a spa by star architect Peter Zumthor, designed by Lucas Harari, who studied something before his comic career? Exactly. Architecture.
Is that a coincidence? Or a trend? If you leaf through the publishing programs, you'll see that drawing architects have a few more. And these are not short-lived real estate bubbles. If publishers publish something of them, they usually give even more titles of them a chance. Because they are better than others?
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Architecture Comics: This is not the house of Santa ClausSurprisingly, "The Pavilion" by Andreas Müller-Weiss does not seem to be the place to be. Müller-Weiss erodes a real thriller about Le Corbusier, a villa on the Côte d'Azur and its subsequent owners. Substantively involved in content, although Müller-Weiss strives bravely for unbundling. Also, the look is ambiguous, people are not eye catchers. On the other hand, how Müller-Weiss conceives the double pages is very inspiring.
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Andreas Müller-Weiss
The pavilion: Murder on the promenade Le Corbusier
Publishing company:
Edition Modern
Pages:
72
Price:
EUR 29,00
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In addition to the action, the simple, bold color compositions each connect a tier of animals that goes over both sides: a raven, for example, makes his mark on the drawings, and Müller-Weiss incorporates the raven feathers into his panels so entertainingly that one forgets, after that To ask sense. Absolutely worth seeing -but so I had not presented me architects comics of course.
But more like François Schuiten and Benoit Peeters. The Belgians are doing great business, winning awards and one to two toes in the movie business. Architect child (mum and dad) Schuiten delivers the pictures, for the scenario he has Peeters. The result is sometimes solid, sometimes stunning, and the fluctuations are not due to Schuiten. The shows reliably gigantic cities, building canyons like the old Winsor McCay, sometimes with a hint of steampunk. Less reliable is the quality of Benoit's scenarios. All around I recommend the internet parable "Fever in Urbicand", the desert fable "Beyond the border" or the airship adventure "The way to Armilia".
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François Schuiten, Benoît Peeters
The way to Armilia (The mysterious cities)
Publishing company:
Writer & Reader
Pages:
112
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EUR 24.80
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Also "Salzhunger" by Mattias Gnehm convinces visually more than narrative. Gnehm is also established, has exhibitions, awards and published for almost 25 years, since 2003 without Scenarist. This time, there's a thriller about and from Nigeria: An environmental organization is trying to prove eco-crime. Could be a straightforward thriller, but Gnehm still wants to explain a lot of politics, accommodate intrigues within the environmentalists and out of sheer will the story is lost. What remains are convincing splashes, a sure sense for the right atmosphere, his Nigeria is here quite comparable to Matthias Schultheiss' "Sharks of Lagos".
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Matthias Gnehm
salt hunger
Publishing company:
Edition Modern
Pages:
220
Price:
EUR 32,00
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Compared to the uncomfortable recipient, Agustin Ferrer Casas' "Mies" is much more conventional, a product with no corners or edges. Casas portrays the life of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe largely chronologically, and for a reason, he lets the aged star in a framework act with his grandson as if he hears the stories for the first time. This is routiniert routiniert, like much at all in "Mies": Solid page layout, the most daring are two used to centerfold-like portrait double pages.
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Agustín Ferrer Casas
MIES - Mies van der Rohe: A visionary architect
Publishing company:
Carlsen
Pages:
176
Price:
EUR 20,00
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The characters are statically portrayed, slightly unarmoured and neatly wind their dialogues, but the material remains good: you get a comprehensive introduction to Mies' life and loves, his role in the Nazi dictatorship and his most famous buildings. But a comic has more possibilities, especially for an architect. But I know that only since I got the Japanese Tsutomo Nihei in the hands and his series "Blame".
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Tsutomu Nihei
BLAME! Master Edition 1
Publishing company:
Cross Cult
Pages:
400
Price:
EUR 28,00
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Francois Schuiten's panoramas are often breathtaking, but Nihei goes one better. If he opens the reader's gaze into the depths of his nasty-rotten world of technology, into the gorges between endlessly screwed machine walls, then you are better free of heights. In addition, Nihei has an admirable knack for action: fast-paced, skillfully alternating between brutal details and massive shots.
Normally he wants to be hearted for the courage to silence: Nihei knows that uncertainty is more compelling than page-long explanations. So his heroes are silent and meet people who say as little. Why should they talk? For the reader? Do not look at Nihei! How clever that was, can be seen in his new series "Aposimz".
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Tsutomu Nihei
Aposimz - Land of Dolls 1
Publishing company:
Cross Cult
Pages:
192
Price:
EUR 10,00
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The gigantic machine planetary world is comparable, but Nihei's drawing style is no longer cold and painfully clear, but gently gentle. This is well balanced by a few Splatter moments, but the silence has now become loquacious: in this bizarre world infinite, constantly spreading rules apply.
And now?
If you do not like comics that it looks too much like art, you're not doing much wrong with the architect. The story goes: This can go either way.
