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Rusty Brown By Chris Ware. Jonathan Cape/Penguin Random House, £25, $35 If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s books still a compelling issue, few have a claim as strong as that of Chris Ware. His carefully drawn and extended fictions (such as Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories) chronicle the anxieties of American life with degrees of excruciating internal self-examination and forensic external details equalled by few other authors, literary or otherwise. By concentrating on a small cast of characters over long periods of time, Ware can revisit various obsessions and interests, from pulp science fiction to architecture; race to class; cruelty to kindness – while keeping the reader enthralled. Once you have entered his mundane worlds, these sagas have the gripping inevitability of a picaresque Victorian novel. The final spread displays ‘Intermission� ....
From John Pawson in the Cotswolds to Richard Neutra in California, a new collaboration with Sotheby’s International Realty explores remarkable homes and the people who shaped them Frieze has been engaged with architecture since its inception, working with leading figures such as Annabelle Selldorf and Kulapat Yantrasast to create the structures that house its fairs, and hosting the likes of Sir David Adjaye and Peter Zumthor at its Art & Architecture Summits. A new collaboration, ‘Building Stories,’ with Sotheby’s International Realty ®, goes inside outstanding homes across the globe, and discovers how the histories and visions of creative individuals have shaped them into exceptional places to live. ....
Copy Graphic novels fold drawings of people, space, and time into their narrative structure to produce powerful visual stories. Graphic novels and architecture also share a set of common tools that are central to their depiction drawing, sequencing, text, action, character, etc. This makes for a natural allegiance between graphic novels, architecture, and the city. In this episode, Stewart pulls the graphic novels off his bookshelf to show how and why they influenced his approach to architectural design and led to the creation of award-winning competition entries. In particular, David Mazzuchelli’s City of Glass and Asterios Polyp, and Chris Ware’s Building Stories offer lessons for developing a holistic approach to architecture that involves multiple points of view, politics, fiction, and visionary design. ....