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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.

“The Great Living Museum of the Imagination” in Turin and Milan

I will be in Turin and Milan to present The Great Living Museum of the Imagination.

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.

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 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,…