Matteo Pericoli was born in Milan, where he graduated from the
Polytechnic School of Architecture. He moved to New York in 1995, where he has worked as an
architect, illustrator, author, journalist, and teacher. From 1997 to 2000 he
worked at the architectural firm Richard Meier & Partners as the project
architect for the Jubilee Church in Rome.
His drawings have been published in various newspapers and magazines, both in
the US and in Europe—including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Conde' Nast
Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Vanity Fair, Il Corriere della Sera, and La Stampa, among others. He is
a regular contributor of La
Stampa, Gardenia, and of Bell'Italia where his monthly column
Finestra sull'Italia appears. He has written for the Italian newspapers L'Unità
and La Stampa. In
2007 he completed Skyline of the World, a 397-foot-long panoramic mural for
American Airlines' new International Terminal at John
F. Kennedy
Airport in New York. He has taught architecture and
illustration at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, NY, and is now living with his
wife and daughter in Turin, Italy, where he held a Visiting Professorship at
the Polytechnic of Turin, Faculty of Architecture, where he is working on new
projects on London and Turin, and where he teaches architecture to creative
writing students at the Scuola Holden.
Other than in the US,
his books have been published in the United
Kingdom, Italy,
South Korea, Taiwan, and China.
Published Books:
The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York (Simon &
Schuster, November 3, 2009)
Tommaso and the Missing Line (Knopf for Young
Readers, December 2008)
World Unfurled (Chronicle, 2008)
Manhattan Unfurled (Random House, 2001)
Manhattan Within (Random House, 2003)
See the City: the Journey of Manhattan Unfurled (Knopf for Young Readers,
2004)
The True Story of Stellina (Knopf for Young
Readers, 2006)
New York e altri disegni (Quodlibet, IT,
2005).
New York, Line by Line, Illustrations by
Robinson, foreword by Matteo Pericoli (Universe, October 2009).
Awards:
AIGA, Borders Group, Inc. (nomination for “2006
Original Voices Award”), Cooper-Hewitt - National Design Awards (nomination for
“Architecture Design Award”), Gryphon Award, Municipal Art Society (nomination
for “Brendan Gill Award”), NY Book Show, NY Bookbinders Guild, NY Public
Library, Pewter Award, Society of Illustrators.
Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/Pericoli.Matteo
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