Carlo Scarpa
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Carlo Scarpa (June 2, 1906 - 1978), was an Italian architect with a profound understanding of materials.
He was born in Venice. Scarpa spent his early childhood in Vicenza. After his mother's death, at the age of 13, he, his father and brother moved back to Venice. Carlo attended the Academy of Fine Arts where, after two years, he focused on architectural studies. Graduating from a non-professional program, although he apprenticed with an architect, he was not permitted to practice architecture without associating with an architect. Hence, those who worked with him, his clients, associates, craftspersons, called him "Professore," rather than "architetto." 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 Sendai, Japan, Scarpa died after falling down a flight of concrete stairs. He survived for ten days in hospital before succcumbing to the injuries of his fall. He is buried standing up, in the outside corner of his L-shaped Brion family cemetery at Altivole in the Veneto.
[edit] Notable works
- 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 di Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy, 1956 - 1964
- Showroom of Olivetti, St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy, 1957 - 1958
- Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, 1961-1963
- Brion Tomb and Sanctuary, 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.
