Tag Archive for: Literary Architecture

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.

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.

In-person LabLitArch editions at IED Turin

The in-person editions of the Laboratory of Literary Architecture have finally started again!
At the Window (Lugano workshop)

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,…

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…

From the LabLitArch edition in Taipei (Taiwan)

Some images from the LabLitArch workshop held at the Center for the Arts of National Taiwan University in Taipei. The students — with very diverse majors such as architecture, engineering, political science, social studies, philosophy and…

LabLitArch in Numéro Cinq

Gary Garvin writes about the Laboratory of Literary Architecture: Fiction is a construction that arranges space and has a structure that defines spatial relationships. As such it is a kind of architecture, but its structure, especially in our…

LabLitArch @ Dubai Design Week

From October 24 through 28, a five-day LabLitArch workshop for writing and architecture students will be held at Dubai Design Week 2016, organized in partnership with the Emirates Literature Foundation.