Carlo Scarpa

Italian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-78) was a unique figure in the Modern movement and his work continues to challenge accepted notions of modern architecture and its integration into historic contexts.

Scarpa possessed an exceptional facility in the deployment of material and his work is steeped in the culture of his home city of Venice, while also engaging concepts from modern art and architecture. Scarpa stood in two worlds, the ancient and the modern, and his architecture, so representative of time and place, is particularly shaped by the experience of the Inhabitant. This book provides an extraordinary exploration of Scarpa's work, taking the reader through analysis of process and design as well through tailor-made, experiential "walk-throughs' of over 15 critical projects.

Robert McCarter's Illuminating text continues his reputation for meticulously researched and experentially-based accounts of key figures in modern architecture. This book provides the definitive study of Scarpa's most important accomplishments, Including such Iconic works as the Gipsoteca Canoviana, the Casteivechhio Museum and the Brion Cemetery, among others.

Over 350 Images and architectural drawings of Scarpa's projects give life to the text. Illustrations

cover architecture and design; local environments, from Venetian canais to the northern Veneto; and Influences, from Frank Lloyd Wright to Paul Klee. In addition, a complete list of all realized and unrealized works serves to make this an unrivalled monograph on one of the universally recognized masters of modern architecture.