Karina Puente, an architect and urbanist based in Lima, Peru, who has worked on plans for the Lima of the future, has also begun illustrating each of Calvino’s 55 cities. The drawings capture much from the text, but they also have a magic of their own. — Numéro Cinq
Anastasia has concentric canals and much in it streets that captures our senses and feeds our desires.
We draw sources for inspiration wherever we can. This post reviews three illustrations for Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities, a project by Karina Puente. It has has links to her site—and her other drawings. The novel itself contains much to consider when we think about the life of our cities, past and present.
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