Invisible cities

What Can Metaverse Planners Learn from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities | ArchDaily

Illustrations based on Italo Calvino's popular novel.

Illustration, Photography, Architecture

Illustration, Architecture, Graphic Design, Adobe Illustrator

In the second part of the book, we get introduced to Maurilia, a postcard city. Here the recurrent discussion of change, and perception of change is metaphorized through an old and new Maurilia, in…

Image 5 of 13 from gallery of What Can Metaverse Planners Learn from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Illustration of Zobeide. Image Courtesy of Pooja Patel

This work of fiction is not just a story, it’s a rich conversation and a surreal travelogue of the most fantastical cities.Invisible Cities, the 1972 novel by writer Italo Calvino (translated by William Weaver) is said to be one of his most cherished works. This work of fiction is not just a story, it’s a rich conversation between Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, and Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler. The book is a vivid travelogue of the most fantastical cities Marco Polo visited on his…

According to the Deconstruction Institute, over 270,000 houses are demolished each year. The debris from this activity is enough to build a wall 30 feet high and 30 feet wide around the entire bo…

Esmeralda, one of Italio Calvino's portrayals of the Italian city of Venice in his poetic work, Invisible Cities, is interpreted as a diagrammatic model. The multi-leveled Esmeralda with its numerous routes, paths, and passageways in the form of canals,…

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Fedora's Museum Invisible cities. Chapter 2. Cities and Desire 4. Fedora's Museum. A crystal globe in every room. Looking into each globe, you see a blue city, the model of a different Fedora. These are the forms the city could have taken if, for one' reason or another, it had not become what we see today.

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College Final Major Project.Scenes based on descriptions from Novel, Invisible…

Image 11 of 11 from gallery of Intricate Illustrations of Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities'. Valdrada. Image © Karina Puente

I won't pretend to be a comic book connoisseur. My brother and I collected Tintin books for our father to read to us before bedtime and well, that's about as far as it went for my foray into the graphic arts world. But now I'm wondering, if I had spent a little more time at the comic book store as a

Artists Camille Benoit and Mariana Gella used lockdown to create their latest project "The invisible city", architectural models of fantastic cities.L'articolo “The invisible city”, Benoit and Gella’s latest project sembra essere il primo su Collateral.