ABSTRACT
Academic disdain notwithstanding, the exploration of the relationships between comics and architecture has been a not quite visible yet recurring phenomenon throughout the history of the medium. A look at architectural publications over the last thirty years shows a discrete but steady flow of articles, as well as an increasing number of exhibitions that cover the different overlaps between architecture and graphic narrative. A discipline always hungry for new images and concepts, architecture has always been prone to absorb new modes of representation, and comics have proven useful at different points of its History, particularly since the last decades of the last century, where there has been a growing tendency to understand projects as (inter)active processes rather than objects. In turn, the building becomes a visual embodiment of the conditions it criticizes, recovering a symbolic nature of architecture that arises in the multi-layered text of the comic page.
