I just stumbled upon this, a great 2011 blog from the second edition of the LabLitArch course at the Scuola Holden. With works and posts by Chiara Zingariello, Ferdinando Morgana, Gabriele Di Fronzo, Letizia Lavarino, Giovanni Sanicola, Andrea Marchetti, Cecilia Ghidotti, Stephania Giacobone, Fabrizio Allione, and Giuseppe Franco. So nice! http://lospaziodiunracconto.wordpress.com/
A great post by the New York Times / Learning Network on the Montgomery Blair High School LabLitArch project by George Mayo. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/reader-idea-creating-architectural-models-of-literary-themes/
In the spring of 2016, Matteo Pericoli, together with a selected team of LabLitArch TAs, will participate in an OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle) experiment titled “An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Manhattan & the Laboratory of Literary Architecture: 5 Poets/5 Neighborhoods/5 Designs.”
“Experience is the axis on which the Laboratory of Literary Architecture spins. The Laboratory for Literary Architecture pushes students to compose through their model a fictional architectural experience. Donald Bartheleme’s Concerning the Bodyguard is ‘translated into skyscrapers.’ Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a pavilion inside a ‘sunken ellipse’ […]
“When we read a novel, a short story or a work of non-fiction, there is often a moment when we have the feeling that we have entered a structure built, knowingly or unknowingly, by the writer. I am not talking about the ability to picture in our minds the locations or architectural settings described in […]
When Writers Become Architects: An Experiment In Space And The Written Word By AJ Artemel Writing has long been intrinsic to the practice of architecture, from Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture to the theoretical essays of Peter Eisenman. Writing helps architects explain ideas that are hard to glean from drawings alone, and […]
“One Friday evening in March, I took the train to Columbia University and walked into one of the strangest and most interesting classes I’d ever seen. It was the Laboratory of Literary Architecture, part of the Mellon Visiting Artists and Thinkers Program at Columbia University School of the Arts, and a multimedia workshop in which […]
Writers as Architects by Matteo Pericoli August 3, 2013 Great architects build structures that can make us feel enclosed, liberated or suspended. They lead us through space, make us slow down, speed up or stop to contemplate. Great writers, in devising their literary structures, do exactly the same. So what happens when we ask writers […]