The Comic Architect: text now on digital archive

31 October, 2007 in Architecture, As Submitted

The pdf copy of the The Comic Architect has now been uploaded to the University of Sheffield School of Architecture’s digital archive. You can access the digital archive from any university computer, or further afield if you have a Sheffield username and password.

http://sucod.shef.ac.uk/soada/

Or you can click through to the digital archive from the departmental website:

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture

Where next for “no words no action”?

17 October, 2007 in Architecture, As Submitted, Blogging, Connections

This blog has now reached a turning point. It was created last spring to record the processes that I went through as part of my Masters in Architecture dissertation. This week, the final text has been printed and bound, and is now with the staff at the University of Sheffield for marking. The project is, for [...]

The Comic Architect: full text (pdf)

17 October, 2007 in Architecture, As Submitted, Bookshelf

Here is the complete text of The Comic Architect: words and pictures along the line between architecture and comics – the M.Arch dissertation that this project has produced.

 comic_architect_complete.pdf

It includes in the appendices the three interviews I conducted with Joost Swarte, Henk Döll and Ben Katchor.
Please note that in uploading this dissertation, I am concious that the text [...]

Job done: dissertation dusted, now being bound

12 October, 2007 in Blogging, Notebook, Tutorials

After almost nine months, the dissertation is done. I put the finishing touches to the 10,000 word text (and the 22,000 word appendices, which included the three interviews with Joost Swarte, Henk Döll and Ben Katchor) on Wednesday night, before taking two copies to be bound. One is being lovingly stitched into a deep red hardback [...]

Unfinished: Nathalie op de Beeck on Jem Cohen, Ben Katchor, Chris Ware and Walter Benjamin

11 October, 2007 in Ben Katchor, Bibliography, Chris Ware, Comics, Comix Scholars Discussion List, Connections, Travel, Urbanism

This blog post was started months ago but was abandoned due to other commitments. It is, however, a relevant account of one article that was particularly important to the dissertation. 

Welcome back to those loyal regular readers who have missed me for almost a month. My apologies for the prolonged silence, but with the end of the academic term [...]

Symposium: Alternate Currents, Sheffield 26/27 November

9 October, 2007 in Architecture, Blogging, Conferences, Connections

For your information, from the Alternative Architectural Praxis blog…
Alternate Currents  is a major international symposium which looks at alternative forms of architectural praxis. The symposium will present a range of ideas from around the world which propose new and reflective ways to conduct architectural practice. Many of the speakers start from a critical position with regard [...]

Update: the final push

1 October, 2007 in Architecture, Blogging, Connections, Interviews, Travel

Apologies for not posting anything for a while; the project is progressing rapidly, and the final text will be submitted in just over two weeks time. I enjoyed an interesting conversation with Ben Katchor in New York City a few weeks ago, and after some time and space to think about the project (while piloting [...]