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city    A speech given by Italo Calvino to students at Columbia University in New York City in 1983. "What is they city to us today? In these times, when it's becoming harder and harder to live in a city, I believe I have written the last love poem to a city. Maybe we are reaching a period of crisis in urban life. We are continually hearing more and more about the destruction of our natural environment and how the weaknesses of the giants of the technological system can set off chains of events that can paralyse any metropolis. The crisis of overbig cities is just another face of the crisis facing the environment. So how is it that, despite all this crisis, we still live in cities? What do we find so irresistible about them.
Cities are the melting pot of so many things: memories, desires, languages... All the history books agree that they are places where we can barter things, and not only am I referring to products here, I am also talking about words, desire and memories".

Vasco Mourão
We can clearly discern what Brazilian artist Vasco Mourão does for a living in his work. ItÕs hard to see exactly where the borderlines are in this architect's drawings. In these buildings the black lines are the bricks and the never-ceasing different architectures continuously invade the blank white space. These handdrawn imperfect geometrical sketches that appear old and their organic chaos are an appropriate succinct metaphor for the ever-growing infinte cities. Lose yourself in the entrails of this black and white labyrinth-city...

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