City Strips is an architecture zine printed in London by p—o—i.net, published in 4 issues since February 2014: “The Amazing City”, “Super City”, “The Incredible City” and “Gotham”.
The zines are 32 pages-each collections of spreads from famous comics series such as “The Amazing Spiderman”, “The Superman”, “The Incredible Hulk” and “The Batman”, featuring notable architectures from the original comics and with all characters deleted . The result, defined as: “all action architecture from some of the most read cities of fiction earth“, is a sort of postcard tour across imaginary and desolate territories, or rather, an Archigram of sort publication, without colours and utopian overtones.
Motivated by the desire to create a new social scenario, the PAR system is a modular complex providing an alternative to the defiant lifestyle, by positioning itself in a permanent state of insurrection. The parasite architecture growth is articulated by the vitality of its spontaneous community. A pocket of active resistance created by welcoming the discontented, this act of guerrilla architecture sets out to hijack the “Great arch of fraternity.” Unite the forsaken, the marginalized, refugees, demonstrators, dissenters, hippies, utopians, and the stateless of all kinds.
Building Blocks is a comic book about two characters, a toddler and a baby, in which the toddler is constantly constructing this world and the baby is…
