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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,…