Main entry:

Hoorn, Mélanie van der.

Title & Author:

Bricks & balloons : architecture in comic-strip form / Mélanie van der Hoorn.

Publication:

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2012.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held June 1-Aug. 26, 2012 at ABC Architectuurcentrum, Haarlem, Netherlands.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Architecture in comic-strip form : A benevolent megapolis with as-yet unknown poetry ; Architecture in comic-strip form ; Is this really serious ; Why don't these architects make architectonic drawings? ; Key moments ; Historical coherence ; Overviews of architecture in comic strips ; Kindred practices ; Set-up -- Part 1. Architectural critique : Exploring the interaction between man and building in a poetic-philosophical way : Walls hung out to dry ; People and the effect of architecture ; Doucin, Bosshart and quiet time: matter, atmosphere and beauty ; Damsbo: enter the architect with a sense of humour ; Lai: light-hearted but serious fiction ; Schuiten and Peeters: the after-action of the eye ; Andreas and Pierre-Alain Bertola: nightmares of masterpieces ; Liberatore: very great and very small in one single story ; Bézian: writing the history of 'today's' architecture ; Mathieu: a palpable lack of living space ; Ware: buildings as speaking memories ; Different angles on the same reality thanks to a multi-faceted art form -- Showing a deliberately subjective view of built reality : Kruiswijk: a pink dress in the creepy Bijlmer district ; Making the frog jump again ; Giamarelos, Grima, Gerner: generating polyphony ; Aasared: self-critical subjectivity as a means of equal communication ; Studio Basel and Dissmann: involving a wider public in science ; Peanutz and Blanchet: drawing as a gateway ; Shin, MAP and Géant: the added value of drawn characters ; Loom Landesberg and associates: fiction as a sociological disclosure ; Polyphonic stories as exposures of delicate issues -- Assuming a critical position on supposedly wrong tracks in architecture : Dietrich: brutal and conspicuous ; Sugaring the pill ; Odos and Elastico Spa: Absurdity as an argument to legitimize oneself ; Crimson and Jäger: wholesale frustration ; Schuiten and Peeters: drawing to separate the wheat from the chaff ; Raffetto and Solera, MOOV and dass, MAP and Jones: narrative distance ; Design With Company and Schuiten: imaginative identification ; Gnehm: debating at the highest level ; From viewing to producing -- Part 2. Architectural design : Presenting the people and ideas behind the designs : Raumlabor: putting one's head on the chopping block ; OMA: sympathizing amusedly with the anguish of the architect ; Van der Kooij: the flexibility of the floor plan ; Aasared and Peanutz: the architect as a hand-drawn comic-strip figure ; Scott: fiction says more than reality ; Jaque and De Urbanisten: BIG's heroic epic as a source of inspiration ; Périphéiques and Fletcher Priest: alternative monographs ; Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones, Studio 8, Interboro, Géant and Maupin: drawing the ideas 'behind' the designs ; TAM: social dimension ; Durable and ephemeral drawings -- Conveying lively and lived-in design to the public : Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones en Heintz-Kehr: last-minute winner and loser in knickerbockers ; Dissatisfaction with conventional means of presentation ; Aasared, Dissmann, OMA, Mecanoo, Shin and Géant: narrative guided tour ; Doucin and Wetzstein, Design With Company, and Henninger, Neveux and Tessié: experiments with time ; Schuiten, De Urbanisten, Studio 8. AWG. La Cinquième ; Couche, Neutelings and Géant and fellows: atmosphere and sensuality ; Van de Wal, Krill and Doezel and C+S: involvement through imagination ; Van der Stelt, Fantastic Norway, Zwerchfell and Uniform: captivating dynamism ; Foster and Maynard: the troublesome issue of characters ; Pitfalls -- Creating comic-strip architecture : Design With Company: meta-comics ; Friedman: freeing the architecture from the paper ; Cipriani and Marchesi: the comic strip as an all embracing marketing strategy ; Swarte and Mecanoo/Döll: strip-cartoonist-cum-architect ; More architecture per cubic metre -- In conclusion : The synergy between word and image ; Bridges between design and critique ; Between real fiction and fictitious reality ; Work in the making -- Comic-strip biographies.

Summary:

Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas, Bjarke Ingels and Norman Foster - all these cutting-edge architects have at some time used comic strips to present their projects or to reflect on the socio-political context that shaped them. There are other architects with a surprising diversity of architecture in the comic strip format to their name. Willem Jan Neutelings and the Californian Wes Jones have even won international competitions with them. This book brings together a wealth of architectural projects that reach out to the world of comics, many published here for the first time. There are also a number of comic-strip creators who have made existing or imaginary buildings a key feature of their work, thereby expressing their perspective on architectural and urban issues.

ISBN:

9789064507960
9064507961

Subject:

Architecture in art Exhibitions.
Comic books, strips, etc. History and criticism Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Architecture dans l'art Expositions.
Architecture 21e siècle Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Architecture in art.
Architecture, Modern.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic
Architektur
Arkitektur i konsten.
Tecknade serier.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

ABC Architectuurcentrum Haarlem.

Bricks and balloons : architecture in comic-strip form
Architecture in comic-strip form

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278746
Call No.: BIB 214396
Status: Available