Nacho Martin & Manuel Collado
In Latin America, Magical Realism, in literature, was a way to dream a possible reality, beyond the stagnation of economic and political realities. The architectural practice was not alien to it.
Some projects by Archigram, Superstudio and OMA, supported through fiction, comics and pop culture have now become architectural paradigms. In this unit, students are invited to imagine a new London through making a comic. By using references that go beyond architecture such as sci-fi books, comics and films or POP music, graffiti and cartoons, students write scripts and design scenarios for new urban situations.
Unit 4 Group Photo
Unit 4 begins work on their comic storyboards
Dr Yellow Trace PhD storyboard
Working on the underwater monsters
Alex sketches over test images
Comic storybook pages come together on various screens
Explosive sounds in comic form
Little guy in Eirini’s sketchbook
The book begins to come together
Phyo putting together the final spreads
Can and Lauren working on their comic
Testing different speech bubbles
Team Gaiatopia working away on their comic
Dr. Yellowtrace PhD lets out an evil laugh
Jasmine paints detail into some of Gaiatopia’s visuals
The final product – Amazing Stories from the City complete with recycled and reappropriated gold podium, stand and disco paraphenalia! A blinding success!
Spreads from the final book: