Lesecafé: Architektur im Comic „Aus dem Privatleben der Ikonen. Graphic Novels über Star-Architekten und ihre Bauten”

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Tuesday, 21.04.2026, 18:30 | Reading café: Architecture in comics "From the private lives of icons. Graphic novels about star architects and their buildings"

In Western culture, there have always been architects who have created their own trademarks: emblematic buildings that immediately reveal who designed them. This has inspired comic authors such as Andreas Martens, Andreas Müller-Weiss and Lucas Harari to write stories about Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Peter Zumthor; in the 1970s, offices such as Archigram even presented their projects in the form of comics.

Wednesday, 22.04.2026, 18:30 | Reading café: Architecture in comics "How it could have been. Mirror worlds and counterfactual history"

Comics are an ideal medium for imagining fictional worlds. With plenty of time and a postmodern mindset, entire continents can be created, with their own aesthetics and history, which hold up a mirror to our reality in an astonishing way. François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters ("The Mysterious Cities"), Corbeyran & Chabbert ("New Byzance", "New Harlem") or Serge Lehman and Stéphane de Caneva ("Metropolis") have created a visually powerful oeuvre from this.

Thursday, 23.04.2026, 18:30 | Reading café: Architecture in comics "Kafka sends his regards. Architecture as an expression of a disturbing inner world "

Surreal scenes, absurd events, inner abysses or being trapped inside oneself have been the subject of literature and painting since the early 20th century. In the meantime, comics have also devoted themselves to these themes. Examples include the albums by Marc-Antoine Mathieu based on Kafka stories ("Le processus", "La Qu...", "L'Origine") or the highly complex visual worlds of Chris Ware ("Jimmy Corrigan", "Building Stories"). When excellent draughtsmanship is added to this....

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