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Tina Modotti

I have found huge inspiration lately in the work of Tina Modotti.
February 15, 2025/by Matteo Pericoli

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.
July 21, 2024/by Matteo Pericoli

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.
May 21, 2024/by Matteo Pericoli

Windows on the World

by Matteo Pericoli
"Of all the construction, constituent and compositional elements in architecture, the window is undoubtedly the one with the greatest narrative potential."
May 18, 2024/by Matteo Pericoli

Windows on Elsewhere in the Washington Post

Illustrator and writer Matteo Pericoli writes that “looking out a window doesn’t just reveal a cityscape or landscape — it can prompt you to reflect inward, compel you to retrace the steps that have brought you to that particular threshold at that precise moment in your life.”
December 14, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

Paris in Our View

Matteo Pericoli provides the gorgeous line drawings, which depict the window views of poets who, at one time or another, made their homes in Paris.
November 10, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

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.
November 4, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

Literature, architecture, and gelato

TEDxTorinoSalon
«If the architecture of a story were really a building, what kind of building would it be?»
September 25, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

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.
June 24, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

Architecture as a narrative structure

by Manuel Orazi
With his drawings of Manhattan, Matteo Pericoli won New Yorkers over (and then the rest of the world), then went back to Italy, to Turin, to work on architecture, stories, and their relationship.
May 23, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

Let’s play to discover the invisible cities of each novel

by Laura Crinò
Stemming from the experience of a workshop with a group of students ... this book is a true experiment, starting with the format.
April 16, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

“Porta Palazzo like New York, here there is the same mixture of life.”

by Diego Molino
"Not being self-conscious, that is the only way poetry manifests itself."
March 20, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

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).
February 17, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

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.
February 15, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

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).
January 30, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

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.
January 26, 2023/by Matteo Pericoli

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.
December 1, 2022/by Matteo Pericoli

Paper Castles | A guide to literary architecture in order to explore 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.
November 29, 2022/by Matteo Pericoli

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.
November 21, 2022/by Matteo Pericoli

A Window Open Onto the Mind

by Matteo Pericoli
Saul Steinberg: the legacy of a genius
April 28, 2022/by Matteo Pericoli
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