Carlo Scarpa architect intervening with history

• Main Author: Olsberg, Nicholas
• Other Authors: Guidi, Guido (Photographer), Bedard, Jean-Francois
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Monacelli Press 1999
• Subjects: Scarpa, Carlo > 1906-1978; Αρχιτεκτονική > 20ός αιώνας

Review: "Between 1953 and 1978 the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa produced an incredibly varied range of works that challenge our notions of what modern architecture might be. Foremost in that work was the need to reconcile a wholehearted embrace of the new with the longstanding traditions of l...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Nicholas Olsberg
• Three Museums: Photographs / Guido Guidi
• History, Craft, Invention / George Ranalli
• Project and Portfolio Notes / Jean-Francois Bedard
• Palazzo Abatellis
• Canova Plaster Cast Gallery
• Museo di Castelvecchio
• Veritti House
• Olivetti Showroom
• Palazzo Querini Stampalia
• Banca Popolare di Verona
• Brion Family Tomb
• The Brion Family Tomb: Photographs / Guido Guidi
• Thinking with the Eyes / Guido Guidi
• The Art of Display / Sergio Polano
• The Renewal of the Castelvecchio / Alba Di Lieto
• Scarpa Today / Mildred Friedman.