François Schuiten was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1956. Schuiten is the son of two architects. His love of architecture became apparent in the series Cities of the Fantastic, an evocation of fantastic, partly imaginary cities that he created with Benoit Peeters from 1983 for the Belgian monthly comics magazine (A Suivre). Every story focuses on one city or building, and further explores a world where architects, urbanists, and ultimately "urbatects", are the leading powers and architecture is the driving force behind society. Styles explored in the series include stalinistic and fascist architecture in La Fièvre d'Urbicande, skyscrapers in Brüsel, but also the gothic cathedrals in La Tour. Inspired by artists and scientists alike, Schuiten's work can be considered to mix the mysterious worlds of Rene Magritte and the early scientific fantasies of Jules Verne with the graphical world of M. C. Escher and Gustave Dore and the architectural visions of Victor Horta and Etienne-Louis Boullee.
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