This Saturday [October 28th] from 3PM - 6PM LFA will host an unusual reading group. Ilya Mukosey, architect and instructor at the MARSH School of Architecture, will first talk about the book's historical background and its characters, and then will read aloud some passages dedicated to the most extraordinary cities. Participants of the event will have an opportunity to discuss and illustrate what they hear, and perhaps even come up with their own versions of extraordinary cities.
“The city has neither walls, no ceilings and no floors: it has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the vertical water pipes where the houses should appear”. This is how the story of Armilla city begins in Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" book. It describes 55 amazing, both ordinary and fantastic settlements. It is no coincidence that architects hold a special affection for Calvino's work.
Reading language: Russian.
