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LabLitArch featured in the Paris Review Daily

"Cardboard, Glue, and Storytelling," the Paris Review Daily introduces the Laboratory of Literary Architecture new website and new promotional video. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/09/16/cardboard-glue-and-storytelling/
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Upcoming workshops

The Laboratory of Literary Architecture will be at: The Architecture Department of the University of Ferrara, Italy, with first-year architecture students (Spring 2015) The International School of Genoa, Italy, with high-school students…
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LabLitArch feature in ArchitectureBoston magazine

"I have always marveled at the ability of great architects to envision construction in terms of pure space. Shapes, materials, and technology are all elements necessary to define emptiness — what we, the visitors, ultimately perceive." A…
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Archinect post on the Laboratory of Literary Architecture

"The writer and the architect aren't so different from each other when you consider each one as builders of an environment, and what better way to introduce that concept than to a class of high school students." Another great post by Archinect…
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The first LabLitArch student blog

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…
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A New York Times / Learning Network post on LabLitArch

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/
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Spring of 2016: LabLitArch and OuLiPo

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…
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The Common

“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…
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The Observer

“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…

Architizer

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…