Invisible Cities Illuminations© : Paul Haigh 1990 - 1995
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, is a masterwork of urban fables that has enjoyed a world wide following among architects.
Paul Haigh takes on Invisible Cities abundant visual metaphors in
this series of "illuminations" that parallel "the dialogue of opposites"
in the book with the dualities and synthesis that characterize his own work.
The explorer Marco Polo, recounts tales of cities that he has imagined within
the empire of the great Kublai Khan. Cities and memory, Cities and Desire,
Cities and Signs, Thin Cities, Trading Cities, Cities and Eyes, Cities and
Names, Cities and the Dead, Cities and the Sky, Continuous Cities, Hidden
Cities.
Selections shown above are :
Cities and Eyes - Frontispiece
Cities and Memory # 4 - Zora
Cities and Eyes # 5 - Moriana
Hidden Cities - Frontispiece
Cities and Desire #1 - Dorothea
Kublai Khan's Dream - Lalage
Continuous Cities - Frontispiece
Additional selections from the complete series have been published by Progressive Architecture and Rizzoli.
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