5 books on architecture and design to read this summer

by Silvia Calvi

Dedicated to those who can’t give up design and architecture even in summer (and their children): 5 titles to experience the work of the big names in design

With summer and the vacations approaching, five freshly printed titles to pack (even for the little ones) that are beautiful and useful for traveling even through the work of great architects, designers, artists and, lo and behold, even writers. With a suggestion dedicated to those who, perhaps on a sailing boat, will have the opportunity to remember that ours is also a country of coastlines, harbors and – above all – lighthouses.

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3. Il grande museo vivente dell’immaginazione. Guida all’esplorazione dell’architettura letteraria, by Matteo Pericoli (Il Saggiatore, 25 Euros)

Only an architect-illustrator (and son of art) with a dreamy stroke like Matteo Pericoli could think of turning great novels into buildings complete with entrances, floors, rooms, courtyards and exits. Where to show readers, as they go, -as in a guided tour- visions and architecture, stories and designs, fantasy and construction. From thatched huts to the Parthenon, from stone houses to the Guggenheim in New York, page after page, Matteo Pericoli takes readers on a journey through the works of Calvino and Annie Ernaux, Fenoglio and William Faulkner, Elena Ferrante and Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, to talk about them as if they were splendid and mysterious buildings.

Who will like it: bibliophiles, always on the hunt for new insights into authors and novels. And, of course, to those who look at architecture and interior design as disciplines that allow emotions, memories, and words to have their place as well.

https://www.internimagazine.it/approfondimenti/libri-sul-design-da-leggere-estate-2023