Carlo Scarpa
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Carlo Scarpa (June 2, 1906, Venice - 1978, Sendai, Japan), was an Italian architect with a profound understanding of materials. Long periods of apprenticeship under master craftsmen honed his tectonic perception and control. His architecture is deeply sensitive to the changes of time, from seasons to history, rooted in a sensuous material imagination and has been widely praised from Tadao Ando to Mario Botta. In 1978 while in Japan, Scarpa met an unfortunate end, falling to his death down a flight of stairs. Terminally ill with brain cancer, it is believed that this was an act of suicide.
[edit] Sample of Built Projects
- Gallerie dell'Accademia
- Central Pavilion in the Giardini at the Venice Biennale
- Palazzo Ca'Foscari, Venice, 1935 - 1956
- Venezuela-Pavillion, Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1954 - 1956
- Museo Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy, 1956 - 1964
- Showroom of Olivetti, St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy, 1957 - 1958
- Pinacoteca querini stampalia, Venice, 1961-1963
- Brion Cemetery, at San Vito d'Altivole, Italy, 1969 - 1978
- Banca Popolare, Verona, Italy, 1973
[edit] References
- Francesco Dal Co; Giuseppe Mazzariol (2002) Carlo Scarpa : The Complete Works. Rizzoli, (Paperback)
- M. A. Crippa, (1986). Carlo Scarpa, Theory, Design, Projects. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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