Writingplace

Ways of Seeing: Graphic Narratives & Visual Essays on Architecture and the City

This special issue of the Writingplace book series will be dedicated to graphic narratives, visual essays, and illustrated storytelling that tackle urban, architectural, spatial, and landscape environments through this critical lens. It focuses on understanding the visual world both as a means of depicting spatial environments and as a critical, practice-based approach to its manifold media forms in the public sphere. Building on recent visual experiments in architecture publications such as MAS Context and Candide, or the graphic reportage of La Revue Dessinée, this issue invites contributors to employ visual and graphic strategies to reflect on the dynamic interplay between text and image in articulating architectural and urban discourse. It aims to amplify the voices of those who draw to think, write to see or photograph to understand, bridging the gap between scholarship and graphic/visual storytelling. By foregrounding the semiotic potential of the word & image relationship, particularly when addressing spatial and social practices, both analytical and experimental contributions are encouraged, yet also embracing the irreverent, the critical, and the beautifully drawn or captured, providing space for multiple collisions of perspectives and ideas, each one expanding how we see, read, and conceive the page of the book format.  

Editors of this issue: Carlos Machado e Moura, Luís Santiago Baptista, Onorina Botezat, Susana Oliveira.