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A guide to literary architecture for exploring books (and oneself) in an innovative way

by Andrea Fioravanti For the past eleven years, Matteo Pericoli has been teaching students around the world how to analyze the narrative structure of a story and transform it with creativity and imagination into a building. Out of this experience…

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. The Great Living Museum of the Imagination: A Guide to the Exploration of Literary Architecture,…

The New York Times

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,…