Practiceopolis Stories from the Architectural Profession
Practiceopolis Stories from the Architectural Profession by Yasser Megahed is a graphic novel published by Routledge in 2020, featuring 266 pages in English. This work presents the architectural profession as a protagonist within the imaginative city of Practiceopolis, where it explores the complexities of contemporary architectural practice through exaggerated, quasi-realistic narratives. The stories highlight the value conflicts among various cultures in architecture and the tensions between architects and other stakeholders in the building industry, framed as political conflicts concerning the future of Practiceopolis.
Readers will find that the book uses the metaphorical setting of Practiceopolis to provoke critical questions about the everyday routines and ideologies prevalent in the architectural field. By dramatizing these issues, Megahed invites architects, students, and professionals to reflect on their roles and the broader implications of their work. The narrative culminates in a dystopian vision, common in certain graphic novels, encouraging readers to engage with the critical themes of architecture, design, and professional practice.
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This is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in which it acts as the protagonist in the form of an imaginary city called Practiceopolis. The novel narrates quasi-realistic stories that exaggerate the architectural everyday and the tacit, in order to make them prominent and tangible. They depict and dramatise the value conflicts between the different cultures of practising architecture and between the architectural profession and other members of the building industry as political conflicts around the future of Practiceopolis.
The book uses the metaphorical world of Practiceopolis to provoke big questions about everyday routines in the profession that practitioners may take for granted and to examine different ideologies at work among architects and other members of the construction industry. The novel ends in the tradition of dystopian worlds common in a certain strand of graphic novels.
By vividly illustrating and narrating the critical issues he interrogates, the author has created a world into which any architect, student or professional, will both instantly recognise and simultaneously reject, provoking the reader to challenge themselves and the profession at large.
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