Matteo Pericoli's drawings pay homage to the city he adopted

摘要

It took a few Circle Line tours, hundreds of photographs and sketches, and two long rolls of trace paper to get there, hut Matteo Pericoli's debut book, a foldout illustration of New York's West and East Side skyliness called Manhattan Unfurled, became an instant classic when it was released in October 2001. He followed up with Manhattan Within and See the City, a children's book based on Unfurled, which got an exposure boost when the rap group The Beastie Boys used its drawings as cover art for To the 5 Boroughs, their album dedicated to New York. Pericoli earned a degree in architecture from the Polytechnic Institute of Milan and moved to New York in 1995, working for a time for Richard Meier on the Jubilee Church in Rome.