University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

Robin Thomas Professor of Art History

Book Title: Invisible Cities

Author: Italo Calvino

Selection Statement:

This book overturned the way I imagined the visible world. I read it in a single afternoon, sitting on a park bench in New York City in April of 2001. More than any work of scholarship, it challenged the way I conceived of cities and architecture by asking me to ponder how the built environment both conceals and reveals traces of its human history.


Year: 2023