The Laboratory of Literary Architecture

I graduated from the Polytechnic School of Architecture in Milan, Italy, in 1995. That same year I moved to New York City, and worked in several architectural firms, including Richard Meier’s, where I spent several years primarily overseeing the Jubilee Church project in Rome. Soon after moving to New York City, I began translating my curiosity with the architecture of the city into two 37-foot-long, pen-and-ink, scroll drawings of the entire Manhattan skyline as seen from its surrounding rivers, which were first published in The New Yorker magazine in 1999 ¹ and subsequently, in the fall of 2001, in an accordion-format book titled Manhattan Unfurled. ²