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Invisible Cities “You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.” Guy Debord, Kublai Khan, First Plane, Invisible Cities, Read List, Book Writer, Reading Challenge, My Library, Book List

Page Count: 176Excerpt: "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."Italo Calvino imagines a conversation between explorer Marco Polo and the aging Emperor Kublai Khan about all of the fantastical cities which Marco Polo has seen, and it manifests as a series of brief passages about the ways travelers interact with places. It's a surreal collection, using cities as backdrops for broader themes like desire, memory, and human…

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When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Invisible Cities, Spiral Staircases, Spiral Staircase, Telescopes, Motion Graphic, Chapter 1, Staircases, Lamp Post, Sea Shells

When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city.

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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. Invisible Cities Model, Creation Of Adam Hands, Sakura House, Imaginary City, Graphic Design Collage, Dubai Design Week, 3d Ui, Thesis Ideas, Window Architecture

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.

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