Carlo Scarpa

Carlo Scarpa (born with Venice, on June 2nd, 1906 - died with Sendai, on November 28th, 1978), is a Architecte and a Italian Designer.

Biography

The family, her father is teacher, settles with Vicence in 1908 then, with the death of the mother, occurred in 1919, Carlo, her father and his/her brother goes back food to Venice.

Carlo Scarpa is allowed with the of Venice in 1920, after one 1st unfruitful test and, simultaneously with its studies, he works in the agency of the Venetian architect Vincenzo Rinaldo; he obtains, in 1926, his diploma for the occupation of draftsman of architecture then he is the assistant of professor Guido Girilli to the faculty of architecture of Venice where, in 1933, he is part-time lecturer.

He comes first of all into contact with the industrialists of glass of Murano and particularly the glassmakings Cappellin, of which he becomes the artistic adviser, and Venini, in 1933 for which he creates objects out of glass lasting more than 14 years. The plastic possibilities of glass stimulate in him a research and an experimentation constants on the detail.

This same care is found the following years in its restorations and setting in scene of its works, which are characterized by refinement, the expressivity of various materials, the alternation of chromatic nuances and the juxtaposition of tactile properties (smooth and rough or rough surfaces), conceptual clearness between horizontal elements and vertical elements.

In 1942, he is the scenographer of the Biennale de Venise, the 1 of a collaboration which will last 30 years.

In the Fifty, he excels in the restoration and the refitting of museums; thus, restorations of the to Palermo in 1953, of the to Vérone in 1956 then, the following year, of the Quadreria of the in Venice; in 1955, extension of the to Possagno.

It also restructures stores, those of Olivetti located places holy Marc at Venice, of Gavina with Bologna and the buildings of company, those of the seat of the Banca Populare di Verona in Vérone.

He dies accidentally on November 28th, 1978, at the time of a voyage to the Japan where he had been accommodated like a Master. According to its last wills, it is buried in the cemetery of the Brion family in San Vito d' Altivole close to Trévise.

In 1984, the type-setter Luigi Nono dedicated to him the composition for orchestra with microintervalles has Carlo Scarpa, Architetto, Have suoi infiniti possibili .

Principal works

  • Gallery dell' Accademia, Venice, 1945
  • House of the book of Biennial, Gardens of Castello, Venice, 1950
  • Palazzo Ca' Foscari, Venice, 1936 and 1955
  • Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, 1953
  • House of the Venezuela to the Biennale de Venise, 1954
  • Gipsoteca Canoviana, Possagno, 1955
  • Museo civico di Castelvecchio, Vérone, 1956
  • Veritti Villa, Udine, 1956
  • Quadreria of Museo Correr, Venice, 1957
  • Olivetti Store, place holy Marc in Venice, 1957
  • Querini-Stampalia Foundation, Venice, 1961
  • Gavina Store, Bologna, 1961
  • Zentner Villa, Zurich, 1964
  • Cemetery of the Brion family, San Vito d' Altivole, 1969
  • Ca' d' Oro, Venice, 1972
  • Banca Populare, Verone, 1973
  • Stele commemorative of the victims of the terrorist attack of May 28th, 1974, Piazza beyond Loggia with Brescia, 1976

Titrate

  • Little time before its death, it is made Honorary doctor faculty of architecture of Venice.

Price

  • In 1956, Olivetti price for architecture, jointly with the architect Ludovico Quaroni
  • In 1965, IN/Arch price and gold medal for the art and the national culture of the Minister of education for the reconversion of the Castelvecchio in museum

Sources

  • Sergio Los (author) and Klaus Frahm (photographer): Carlo Scarpa , Benedikt Taschen Verlag GMBH, 1993

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