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CARLO SCARPA



CARLO SCARPA



If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel ist good effects without noticing. Carlo Scarpa


CARLO SCARPA


CARLO SCARPA

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Carlo Scarpa (June 2, 1906-November 28, 1978) is one of the most controversial and underappreciated architects of the 20th century. He was not permitted to practice architecture because of his refusal to sit the pro forma professional exam administrated by the Italian Government after World War II. That's why those who worked with him, his clients, associates, craftspersons, called him "Professor", rather than "architect". He worked only associating with an architect.

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ARCHITECTURE


The Italian architect Carlo Scarpa is today recognized as one of the most inspiring and innovative museum and exhibition architects of the 20th century. Scarpa is best known for his instinctive approach to materials, combining time-honored crafts with modern manufacturing processes. Egle Trincanato, the President of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia for whom Scarpa renovated a Venetian palace in 1963, described how "above all, he was exceptionally skillful in knowing how to combine a base material with a precious one".

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Brion Tomb

Scarpa did not confine himself to Venice, however. Indeed, perhaps his most visited and famous work was the last he completed in his lifetime-the Brion Cemetery at San Vito D'Altivole, a small village not far from the Dolomite Mountains. This was the birthplace of Giuseppe Brion, founder of the prestigious Brionvega electronics company, who Scarpa admired as a man of the people, who had "started from the bottom", as well as for the design quality of his products, many of which are museum pieces today.

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ART


Carlo Scarpa. Venini 1932-1947 at Rooms for Glass / Selldorf Architects Venini 1932–1947, a collection of over architect Carlo Scarpa. The exhibit will 29, 2012, after which Rooms for Glass casing the art of Venetian glassmaking with other exhibits.

300 glassworks by run until November will continue showin the 20th century

The first exhibition on Carlo Scarpa will focus on the years between 1932 and 1947 when the Venetian architect was creative director of Venini Glassworks. The collection that was organized for this exhibition includes over 300 works from private and public collections. They are organized by execution techniques and glass textures. In addition to the actual glassworks, the exhibit will feature drawings, prototypes, designs and photographs.

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Zuzana Lamačková Carlo Scarpa počet strán 20 väzba brožovaná jazyk anglický rozmer 197x197mm ISBN 978-80-8987-6495 EAN 7788771507726

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Carlo Scarpa He is best known for his instinctive approach to materials, combining time-honored crafts with modern manufacturing processes. Egle Trincanato, the President of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia for whom Scarpa renovated a Venetian palace in 1963, described how "above all, he was exceptionally skillful in knowing how to combine a base material with a precious one."


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