Marco Frascari

Marco Frascari is an Italian architect and architectural theorist born under the shadow of the dome of Sant Andrea in Mantova, in 1945. He studied with Carlo Scarpa and Arrigo Rudi at IUAV and received his PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught for several years at the University of Pennsylvania, then as Visiting Professor at Columbia and Harvard, then he become a G. Truman Ward Professor of Architecture at Virginia Tech and is currently director of the David Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism in Ottawa, Canada. Marco Frascari is far more well known in the English speaking world than in his country of origin.

Publications

• Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination" (2011)Routledge
• Monsters of Architecture (1991)download .pdf
• "The Tell-the-Tale-Detail," (1981)
• "Una Pillola per sognare ... una casa (1996)
• "Due Anni di Esperienze dello Studio Estivo dell’ Universita della Pennsylvania In Mantova (1994)
• "Architects, never eat your maccheroni without a proper sauce! A macaronic meditation on the anti-Cartesian nature of architectural imagination Nordic Journal of Architectural Research
• "Foreword to Alfonso Corona-Martinez’ The Architectural Project,2002
• "A tradition of architectural figures: a search for Vita Beata” in Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture. George Dodds and Robert Tavernor, eds. 2002.

External links

• Collection at Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania
• Alumni profile - Pennsylvania State University
• World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition entry
• Architectural Maccheroni Article
• The Well Temperate Drawings of a reflective Architect Article
• "Architectural Synestesia: a hypothesis on the makeup of Scarpa's modernist architectural drawings" Article
• "A Light, Six-Sided, Pari Site
• [1] Canadian Cosmopoiesis: Meditations on Cuisine and Architecture
• "Marco Frascari's Zibaldone