Spanish illustrator and writer Agustín Ferrer Casas has created a graphic novel about 20th-century modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, featuring a prologue written by British architect Norman Foster.
The 176-page Mies is a Spanish graphic novel outlining the life and career of the modernist architect, including his time spent at the Bauhaus, fleeing Nazi Germany, and continuing his career in US city Chicago.
The cover of Ferrer Casas's Mies comic features a traditional European street with German signs
Designed by Agustín Ferrer Casas, an artist who lives in Spain, the project features dozens of architectural illustrations of Mies' projects.
In the comic, Casas illustrates key moments in the architect's life, some of which are designed to be larger than life, alongside some of his most famous buildings. It does not claim to be a biography. "It is a fictional biography of his life, based on numerous writings by many other authors and Mies himself," Casas wrote in a blogpost. "And I say fiction because in this book, I try to show not only part of his work but life, the personality of the architect. What made him a great architect and what he left behind in his ambition to build."
A party is held at Mies' Villa Tugendhat, with its marble wall and modernist chairs, alongside a glass corner section
British architect Norman Foster of Foster + Partners also wrote a prologue for the book, noting his time admiring Mies' projects himself in New York City and Ch...