You can learn more about the project from Puente’s official website here. Puente’s work is set to go on display in the San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on the 2nd February 2019. The real, historical Marco Polo (12541324) was an Italian explorer who spent 17 years in. Italo Calvinos Invisible Cities, Illustrated (Again) Lima-based architect Karina Puente has a personal project: to illustrate each and every 'invisible' city from Italo Calvinos. Italian author Italo Calvino (19231985) began his career as a writer of realistic. According to Puente, 'each illustration has a conceptual process, some of which take more time than others.' Usually 'I research, think, and ideate over each city for three weeks before making sketches.' The final drawings and cut-outs take around a week to produce. All About Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities' Italo Calvino’s Life and Work. Invisible Cities, which imagines fictional conversations between the (real-life) Venetian explorer Marco Polo and the aged Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, has been instrumental in framing approaches to urban discourse and the form of the city. Her collection, which ArchDaily published in 2016, and again in 2017, consists of mixed media collages, drawn mainly using ink on paper, brings together a sequence of imagined places – each referencing a city imagined in the book. Invisible cities by Calvino, Italo Publication date 1974 Topics Polo, Marco, 1254-1323 - Fiction, Kublai Khan, 1216-1294 - Fiction Publisher New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English Italian 165 p. Lima-based architect Karina Puente has created a new series in her personal project: to illustrate each and every 'invisible' city from Italo Calvino's 1972 novel.

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino