What structure over there awaits the end?
by Francesco Gallo
Ma cos’è l’architettura letteraria? È una scoperta continua. Non solo: un tentativo di accrescere la nostra consapevolezza quando ci rapportiamo con gli spazi (e con il vuoto).
Entries by Matteo Pericoli
A walk through twelve masterpieces
“These stories are fantastic palaces.”
Matteo Pericoli’s book stems from his “Laboratory of Literary Architecture.”
From Dostoevsky to Ferrante, drawing becomes an alternative form of reading.
“The Great Living Museum of the Imagination” in Turin and Milan
I will be in Turin and Milan to present The Great Living Museum of the Imagination.
RSI Radio 2
In the book “The Great Living Museum of the Imagination,” architect and illustrator Matteo Pericoli explores the links between literature and architecture, between imagination and construction.
A guide to literary architecture for exploring books (and oneself) in an innovative way
by Andrea Fioravanti
It took the multifaceted nature of an architect, illustrator, teacher and writer to discover how to analyze the architecture of a story and transform it with creativity and imagination into a building.
The Great Living Museum of the Imagination
It doesn’t seem real.
After four years of work, what at first looked like a confusing sequence of rooms has become a real book-building.
In-person LabLitArch editions at IED Turin
The in-person editions of the Laboratory of Literary Architecture have finally started again!
LabLitArch News: Two Illuminating Workshops
The first workshop was held in April, in collaboration with professor Marco Maggi of USI University of Lugano (CH), Institute of Italian Studies, and organized by the City of Lugano. An array of participants, including USI literature students, graduate design students, and two selfless local architects (Flora and Michela), attended. Professor Maggi’s area of research, […]
LabLitArch in Routledge academic anthology
It’s finally here and it is so exciting to see the Laboratory of Literary Architecture in a major academic publication! The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City, edited by Jonathan Charley, features a chapter on the LabLitArch, which includes a narrative on the genesis of the laboratory, images, project samples, the Literary Architecture […]