Not Every Architect is an Artist — Carlo Scarpa — 1/4 — AB+C 87

The first video episode of About Buildings + Cities!

We're doing a series of episodes on Carlo Scarpa, the Italian late modernist architect and noted master of poetic and idiosyncratic detail. Scarpa was from the Veneto, and trained and lived for many years in Venice.

He's an interesting architect to talk about for a number of reasons. He was a genuinely remarkable and unique stylist who created a distinctive and extremely individual language, synthesising traditional crafts with organic architecture, industrial materials and a set of carefully chosen references. He seems to mark a high water mark for a sort of extreme attention to the craft and detailing of buildings, super precise, relentlessly variation, total control of every aspect.

In this part we're planning to explain who he was and how he developed, and then we'll look in detail at one of his significant projects of the mid 50s, the Gypsoteca Canoviana.

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