from Boston Globe’s Ideas blog

“The Three Little Pigs” has always been, at heart, a tale about architecture. Steven Guarnaccia, the chair of the illustration program at the Parsons New School, has just made that connection more explicit than usual. In his version of the story, just published by the art-book publisher Corraini (and available in both Italian and English), the three little pigs appear in the form of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Gehry.

The book is a follow-up to Guarnaccia’s take of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” in which Goldilocks discovers that the bear-chair that fits her best is a 1946 classic by Charles and Ray Eames. (Just right — in that midcentury-modern way!)