Tag Archive for: architecture and writing

Literary Architecture

'The Great Living Museum of the Imagination' makes you want to try it yourself, with a beloved short story, drawing paper, colored pencils, cardboard, glue and scissors.

A Book-Building: The Museum of Literary Architecture

by Martina Bastianello Upon entering the Great Living Museum of the Imagination, we feel the distinct impression that someone is taking us by the hand and leading us along a path.

When architecture becomes a narrative

by Mario Gerosa As if we were in a physical space, the exposition progresses through a series of spaces in which the reader can feel comfortable, recognizing a familiar sequence.

5 books on architecture and design to read this summer

by Silvia Calvi For those who look at architecture and interior design as disciplines that allow emotions, memories, and words to have their place as well.

A book is built like a house

by Arianna Passeri Almost magically, even the reader can thus "visit" "The Great Living Museum of Imagination" and discover the secrets behind the construction of a text (and a building).

Stories to inhabit

by Luigi Marfè The Great Living Museum of the Imagination is designed as a walk-through, a visit to an ideal museum about the creativity of architects and writers.

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).

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.

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.