Archive for the 'Bookshelf' Category

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 [...]

Reading: Julius Knipl Real Estate Photographer (part two)

3 June, 2007 in Ben Katchor, Bibliography, Bookshelf, Comics, Nostalgia, Storytelling

This is the second installment of my thoughts on Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer and Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District. You can find the first part here… I’ve uploaded it very much as a finished piece of work in progress; that is to say I could go on re-reading, editing [...]

New to the bookshelf: Capitales Européens en BD

3 June, 2007 in Bibliography, Bookshelf, Purchases

The French comic book publisher Glénat has just released this new book, Capitales Européens en BD. Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome that created the European Union, it collates a large number of excerpts from recent comic books that are set in European capitals.
Citizens of some of the E.U.’s newer member states [...]

Reading: Toneelschuur

27 May, 2007 in Architecture, Bibliography, Bookshelf, Comics, Joost Swarte, Urbanism

Ordering Toneelschuur from an online bookseller in the USA, I had expected this book to be no exception the rule that architectural monographs are almost universally big and glossy. But when the long awaited package came, I was in for a surprise. The book is compact (about 15 x 20 cm), textured and superbly designed [...]

Reading: Julius Knipl Real Estate Photographer (part one)

6 May, 2007 in Architecture, Ben Katchor, Bookshelf, Comics, Nostalgia, Purchases, Storytelling, Urbanism

A couple of weeks ago Comics Journal message board user billym directed me towards the work of Ben Katchor. Katchor is the New York based artist behind the long running syndicated comic strip Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer.
Knipl lives in a city not unlike New York City. It looks and feels like New York City, [...]

New to the bookshelf

22 April, 2007 in Ben Katchor, Bibliography, Bookshelf, Comics, Storytelling, Urbanism

Two more books joined the bookshelf this week, both by the New York based artist and author Ben Katchor. Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer and Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District. I’ll blog more when I’ve had a chance to read them.

New to the bookshelf

7 April, 2007 in Bookshelf, Comics, Comics Journal, Connections, Manga, Nihei Tsutomu, Purchases, Yuichi Yokohama

Being somewhat peeved to find my weekly French class cancelled again without any notice, I dropped by the Strasbourg manga bookstore Librairie Kaobang this morning and picked up Nihei Tsutomu’s newest book Abara and Yuichi Yokoyama’s Travaux Publics. Note that although this study is being carried out in English, it’s ten times quicker and [...]

New to the bookshelf

5 April, 2007 in Architecture, Bibliography, Bookshelf, Comics, Comics Journal, Connections, Joost Swarte, Purchases

Last weekend’s messy gastric-virus-in-Paris hoopla pretty much knocked me and all my study plans for six this week, so I’ve been busy trying to catch up with my design class obligations here in Strasbourg before letting myself get distracted by any juicy reading. However, the good old credit card helped me lift my [...]

  • ABOUT THE PROJECT

    "no words no action" was an experiment in academic blogging. The blog recorded the progress of reading, research and investigations that lead to a Masters in Architecture dissertation at the University of Sheffield in autumn 2007. You can find out more about the author's interest in blogging here.

    To find out more about the thesis, download the original dissertation proposal (pdf format) from February 2007 or the semi-formal first chapter (pdf format) from April 2007.

    Further research projects are in the works, and their dependence on human interaction and networking suggests more blogging will be inevitable when the time comes.


  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    At the time that this blog was created, James Benedict Brown was a fifth year Masters of Architecture student at the University of Sheffield. James' personal blog is here.

    James graduated in 2008 and now lives and works in Glasgow.


  • ABOUT THE TUTOR

    This project was supervised by Renata Tyszczuk at the University of Sheffield


  • ABOUT YOU

    If you want to correct me on something, offer an opinion on a particular artist or building, or if you'd like to recommend someone or something to find out about, please feel free to leave a comment. Just click on 'Comments' under the headline of the relevant post...


  • BOOKSHELF

    Click here to browse James' bookshelf, and to purchase books being used in this project.


  • CONFERENCE DIARY

    I've managed to miss almost half a dozen compelling conferences around the world so far this year, simply because I have no (more) money to travel and no time to escape my studies in Strasbourg and Sheffield. However, if I had a magic plane ticket and plenty of time, here's my selection of essential conferences to attend. Hopefully I'll be there for more of them next year... click here for the diary (updated every time I miss another one).


  • NOTE

    All images are used for illustrative purposes only, and the copyright remains with the artist and/or creator. Please contact me if I have misappropriated an image or incorrectly credited it. Thanks... JBB


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