The album
Le triangle rouge is an hommage to the American architect
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Architecture plays an important
part in it. The book is filled with architectonic masterpieces, for which
Andreas was inspired by the work of Lloyd Wright.
He does want to say something about
Frank Lloyd Wright. "For
years I wanted to make a strip relating to his work. I admire him very
much, since I was young, when I still wanted to become an architect. Mainly
the forms with which this architect worked and the way he handled the division
of space fascinate me. Like positioning windows at very odd places, they
are too high; you can't look through them, yet a fine light is coming through
it. The interiors of Lloyd Wright are special too, they contain so much
power of the imagination, it touches me."
"The forms and buildings he designed I used as a source of inspiration
for my own drawings. Further I used his initials and his signature, a red
square, in the story. For example, I play with all kinds of cubic forms.
Further, I use as a reference to his signature a red triangle, a form that
plays a central part in the book. The long format of the book, the yellowish
paper, the light colors, all refer to Lloyd Wright's work. But for the
remainder, it's my story I tell. Though I've never seen a house by FLW
for real, I would like very much to live in one. They are not boring average
houses, but living creations. I found it a great challenge to draw such
buildings. The examples for these I took from books with pictures
and drawings by FLW that I keep at my home. I don't like to copy, altered
or not, from others. In this case I could agree with it, since it was my
tribute to
Frank Lloyd Wright."