December 2006
Architecture and Literature
Throughout the centuries, humans have built structures out of wood, stone, earth and steel—but also out of words. The Tower of Babel, Orwell’s Ministry of Truth and the house of sand and fog are just a few architectural feats that exist only on the printed page—and in the minds of those who read. The Pinakothek der Moderne now explores this magical relationship between architecture and literature in “The Room in the Mind, the City in the Book,” an exhibition running from December 8 to March 11, 2007, that will lend form to such fictional structures through a fascinating selection of models, plans, illustrations and film clips. <<<
