From New York to Turin – the two cities to which Matteo Pericoli is more tied – research has gone farther, questioning the looks of writers around the world who have described to him the windows from which they draw inspiration or flee.

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, among others, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, La Stampa, and Pagina99 for which he regularly contributes. For over two years, his monthly column Finestra sull’Italia has appeared in Bell’Italia magazine, which is now hosting his Borghi disegnati monthly column. 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 and where he worked on his latest projects on London and Turin.

With a “descriptive, meticulous and suspended line” – as defined by Lorin Stein – Matteo Pericoli delivers with delicacy and detail the personal visions of those who, beyond the glass of their home or studio, daily observe that landscape framed by the geometries of the chassis and gratings