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Carlo Scarpa / Robert McCarter.

By: McCarter, Robert, 1955- [author. ].
Contributor(s): Scarpa, Carlo, 1906-1978 [architect.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Phaidon Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780714848006 ; 071484800X .Subject(s): Scarpa, Carlo, 1906-1978 | Architecture -- ItalyDDC classification: 720.92 SCA
Contents:
Introduction : Verum ipsum factum -- A man of Byzantium who came to Venice by way of Greece : Glass designs, Murano -- Nothing comes from nothing : Ca' Foscari renovations, Venice ; Book Pavilion, entrance, and Italian Pavilion, courtyard, Biennale, Venice -- Beauty, art, wonder : Gallerie dell' Accademia renovations, Venice ; Correr Museum renovations, Venice ; Palazzo Abatellis renovations, Palermo -- Architecture determined not by the whole but by the part : Venezuelan Pavilion, Biennale Gardens, Venice ; Veritti House, Udine ; Church at Corte di Cadore -- Edification as the fostering of emotions : Gipsoteca Canoviana addition, Possagno -- Giving presence to the elements : Olivetti showroom, Piazza San Marco, Venice ; Gavina showroom, Bologna -- Working with traces of the past and expectations of future meaning : Castelvecchio Museum renovations, Verona -- Celebration of the joint : Fondazione Querini Stampalia renovations, Venice -- The wholeness of inseparable elements : Zentner House, Zurich, Switzerland ; Fondazione Masieri renovations, Venice ; Ottolenghi House, Bardolino -- The detail as the adoration of nature : Banca popolare, Verona -- Making the spirit explicit : Brion Cemetery, San Vito d'Altivole -- Conclusion : We only know what we make.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) is a unique figure in the Modern movement and his work in fact challenged, and continues to challenge, accepted notions of modern architecture. While several books have been published on the subject of Scarpa, the majority narrow in their focus, no comprehensive monograph has been produced to date and certainly not approaching the breadth and depth proposed here by Robert McCarter, who has developed a reputation and following for his meticulously researched, experentially-based, and jargon-free accounts of key figures in Modern architecture. This book will provide the definitive study of Scarpa's many accomplishments, including such works at the Canova Museum, the Castelvechhio Museum, the Brion Cemetery, among others.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index.

Introduction : Verum ipsum factum -- A man of Byzantium who came to Venice by way of Greece : Glass designs, Murano -- Nothing comes from nothing : Ca' Foscari renovations, Venice ; Book Pavilion, entrance, and Italian Pavilion, courtyard, Biennale, Venice -- Beauty, art, wonder : Gallerie dell' Accademia renovations, Venice ; Correr Museum renovations, Venice ; Palazzo Abatellis renovations, Palermo -- Architecture determined not by the whole but by the part : Venezuelan Pavilion, Biennale Gardens, Venice ; Veritti House, Udine ; Church at Corte di Cadore -- Edification as the fostering of emotions : Gipsoteca Canoviana addition, Possagno -- Giving presence to the elements : Olivetti showroom, Piazza San Marco, Venice ; Gavina showroom, Bologna -- Working with traces of the past and expectations of future meaning : Castelvecchio Museum renovations, Verona -- Celebration of the joint : Fondazione Querini Stampalia renovations, Venice -- The wholeness of inseparable elements : Zentner House, Zurich, Switzerland ; Fondazione Masieri renovations, Venice ; Ottolenghi House, Bardolino -- The detail as the adoration of nature : Banca popolare, Verona -- Making the spirit explicit : Brion Cemetery, San Vito d'Altivole -- Conclusion : We only know what we make.

UCC Fund.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He taught previously at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 1991-2001, and Columbia University, among other schools. He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture , co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); and Louis I Kahn (2005), all by Phaidon Press. He has also published The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (2017); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); and Aldo van Eyck (2015), among other books.