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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.”
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.
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.
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.
Literature, architecture, and gelato
TEDxTorinoSalon
«If the architecture of a story were really a building, what kind of building would it be?»
«If the architecture of a story were really a building, what kind of building would it be?»
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.
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.
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.
Stemming from the experience of a workshop with a group of students ... this book is a true experiment, starting with the format.
“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."
"Not being self-conscious, that is the only way poetry manifests itself."
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).
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).
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.
From Dostoevsky to Ferrante, drawing becomes an alternative form of reading.
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.
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.
A Window Open Onto the Mind
by Matteo Pericoli
Saul Steinberg: the legacy of a genius
Saul Steinberg: the legacy of a genius
Here is “Ecco Milano”!
Twenty years since the publication of Manhattan Unfurled, here's "Ecco Milano: Ritratto di una città che cambia", an homage to my hometown.
Manhattan Unfurled on CBS Sunday Morning: 20 Years Ago
Exactly twenty years ago today, on October 28th, 2001, CBS Sunday Morning aired a five-minute piece on Manhattan Unfurled.
Manhattan Unfurled 20 Years Ago
Twenty years ago this month, Random House published Manhattan Unfurled, a 22-foot-long accordion book.
At the American Library in Paris
In conversation with Dina Nayeri. Inventing Truth with Words and Lines.
Matteo Pericoli at Kilimangiaro (Rai 3)
Camila Raznovich interviews Matteo Pericoli
“Windows on Elsewhere” Official Site
The official website of the Windows on Elsewhere project is…
Photos from the FSRR “Windows on Elsewhere” Exhibit
Photographs from the opening of the Windows on Elsewhere exhibit…
Windows on Elsewhere: 60 Refugees, 60 Views
Finally, after 3 years of work, “Windows on Elsewhere: 60…