The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Recomposing Place, Intertwining Time, Transforming Reality—Lecture by Robert McCarter
Event Date: Oct 15, 2020; Event City: Robert McCarter, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, will deliver a lecture titled The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Recomposing Place, Intertwining Time, Transforming Reality. In his lecture, McCarter will provide an overview of the career and works of the architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-78), a unique figure among second-generation Modern architects, at once deeply imbedded in the archaic and anachronistic culture of Venice, yet simultaneously transforming that ancient city by weaving the most modern spatial conceptions into its material fabric. At once ancient and modern, Scarpa joined these two worlds by constructing an interpretation of architectural preservation, renovation, and intervention that integrates, engages, and transforms its historical place. Scarpa's architecture is fundamentally based in the light, space, and material sensibility of his place, and his earliest designs were for the Murano glass fabricators Cappellin and Venini, an engagement of the traditional culture of Venice. As a way of exploring the manner in which Scarpa embedded his new works within existing structures in the Veneto region, seven major works will be briefly examined: the Accademia Museum in Venice, the Canova Gipsoteca in Possagno, the Olivetti Showroom in Venice, the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona, the Querini Stampalia in Venice, the Banca Popolare di Verona, and the Brion Cemetery in San Vito d'Altivole. The lecture centers on Scarpa's redefinition of architectural interventions in historical places through the engagement of Vico's aphorism, Verum Ipsum Factum, "we only know what we make," as this is exemplified in Scarpa's works through his actions of recomposing place, intertwining time, and transforming reality. Read the full post on Bustler
Event Date: Oct 15, 2020; Event City:
Robert McCarter, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, will deliver a lecture titled The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Recomposing Place, Intertwining Time, Transforming Reality.
In his lecture, McCarter will provide an overview of the career and works of the architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-78), a unique figure among second-generation Modern architects, at once deeply imbedded in the archaic and anachronistic culture of Venice, yet simultaneously transforming that ancient city by weaving the most modern spatial conceptions into its material fabric. At once ancient and modern, Scarpa joined these two worlds by constructing an interpretation of architectural preservation, renovation, and intervention that integrates, engages, and transforms its historical place. Scarpa's architecture is fundamentally based in the light, space, and material sensibility of his place, and his earliest designs were for the Murano glass fabricators Cappellin and Venini, an engagement of the traditional culture of Venice.
As a way of exploring the manner in which Scarpa embedded his new works within existing structures in the Veneto region, seven major works will be briefly examined: the Accademia Museum in Venice, the Canova Gipsoteca in Possagno, the Olivetti Showroom in Venice, the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona, the Querini Stampalia in Venice, the Banca Popolare di Verona, and the Brion Cemetery in San Vito d'Altivole. The lecture centers on Scarpa's redefinition of architectural interventions in historical places through the engagement of Vico's aphorism, Verum Ipsum Factum, "we only know what we make," as this is exemplified in Scarpa's works through his actions of recomposing place, intertwining time, and transforming reality. Read the full post on Bustler
