Architecture and storytelling have been bedfellows for a very long time. In fact, the relationship between stories and storeys is a story in itself.

Anthropologists tell us that oral storytelling is as old as language—somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 years old,¹ although the oldest graphic evidence we have consists of 36,000-year-old narrative paintings in the Chauvet Cave in Southern France.² Architecture, in the sense of permanent structures, is much younger. The oldest structures uncovered to date are the ruins of a settlement at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which are about 11,000 years old.³

So when did architecture and storytelling join forces?