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Architects are forever designing our material world, the greater challenge may be to shape the space within one’s self, as Archibald does, in Architecture, Seriously.

What started out as a couple of funny sketches about soccer playing architects has evolved into a humorous cartoon on architecture. Architecture, Seriously is a way to exercise the profession of architect as the author has always wanted it: with a sense of humor.

Archibald is an idealistic architect. He wants his architecture to be the state of the art, but in his search for the perfect design he often clashes with the imperfection of reality. Besides being an architect, Archibald is a man with a dream he wants to share with the world. A man who learns from his mistakes and confrontations in the process of realizing his ideas.

Out of a great respect for people realizing their dreams, and a frustration with the concessions of the modern architect forced to sacrifice artistic vision, Archibald exemplifies the author's purpose in life: making the most of it. Archibald believes in this purpose and he finds – by trial and error – that the perfection is not always found at the top, but somewhere in the middle. And in the middle is where we find Architecture, Seriously, the cartoon development of an architect, who will finish as a man, at least as far as the author has a say in the matter, because architects are a strange species.

About the Author:
Born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium, MAAIK HERMANS studied architecture at the school of architecture in Antwerp, a study where drawing is an elementary subject. Drawing plans, sketching, the art of shading, perspective and the study of form and color, all these aspects of drawing were necessary subjects in the study of architecture. To visualize his ideas, he used his own figures to determine human proportions. These figures began to evolve into comic figures. A cartoonist was born.

In 1997 Maaik graduated from college as an architect. Six months later, while working at an architectural office, he started publishing cartoons for a local Antwerp newspaper. At that time Maaik was determined to one day become a full-time cartoonist. Today, his dream has come true.