In 1998, Matteo Pericoli, an Italian-born architect, began drawing the entire West Side skyline of Manhattan on a single thirty-seven-foot roll of white paper. A year later, in a Talk of the Town story that celebrated the completed work, Paul Goldberger described the drawing as being “at once monumental and gentle. In Pericoli’s fine lines every building is benign, and together the buildings seem almost to sway softly in a chorus line along the Hudson.” The New Yorker asked Pericoli to revisit lower Manhattan for the tenth anniversary of 9/11. In this video, Pericoli talks about his artistic process, and how lower Manhattan has evolved over the past dozen years. (Blake Eskin interviews Pericoli in this week’s New Yorker Out Loud podcast.)
Video: The Skyline Redrawn
