An excerpt from the Making Europe Comics Project
Some pages from the short comic, "Le Corbusier and Social Engineering"
The Making Europe project is a series of books that digs deep into the events, technology and transformations that occurred through Europe in the modern era. The team behind the multivolume series are recognized historians and academics spread throughout Europe.
Along with podcasts, talks and events, the project has started launching Making Europe Comics, in which I have been a part of. The comics are small vignettes that touch upon some of the subjects and themes explored in the book series.
Here is an excerpt of a recent piece I worked on, centering around the transformation of cities and housing in post World War II Europe. The comic begins in 1933, aboard the cruise ship Patris II en route from Marseille to Athens for the fourth International Congress of Modern Architecture. The architect and designer Le Corbusier is presenting his ideas on “The Functional City” to other architects. Eventually we see other prominent figures of the day including the Belgian writer Paul Otlet, a fore-father of information sciences and the Austrian Otto Neurath, the inventor of the ISOTYPE language of graphics.
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