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Detail is not decoration
Scarpa makes joints, edges, and thresholds into spatial events.
Carlo Scarpa
Portrait of Carlo Scarpa
Mario De Biasi / Mondadori Publishers · Public domain · SourceCarlo Scarpa shaped architecture through detail, material joints, exhibition craft, and historic intervention.
Life span1906 – 1978Nationality / RegionItaly
Portrait of Carlo Scarpa
Mario De Biasi / Mondadori Publishers · Public domain · SourceIdeas
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Detail as space
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Precise old-new joints
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Exhibition architecture
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Tactile order
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Intervening in history
Scarpa inserts new work into old fabric through precise distance and proportion.
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Slow movement
Scarpa slows movement so that viewing becomes tactile and temporal.
Reading the works
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
1869
A precise old-new intervention in Venice.
Olivetti Exhibition centre in Venice, Italy
1958
A small showroom transformed through stair, material, and detail.
Works
13 buildings
1495Palazzo Abatellis1832Gipsoteca canoviana1869Fondazione Querini Stampalia1950Negozio di arredamento Gavina1955Villa Veritti1958Olivetti Exhibition centre in Venice, Italy1959San Giovanni Battista1961Chiesa di Nostra Signora del Cadore1974Casa Ottolenghi1978Brion tomb?Banca Popolare di Verona?Private bridge of Palazzo Querini Stampalia?Palazzo Brusarosco
All works
Banca Popolare di Verona
Gipsoteca canoviana
1832
San Giovanni Battista
1959
Olivetti Exhibition centre in Venice, Italy
1958
Private bridge of Palazzo Querini Stampalia
Negozio di arredamento Gavina
1950
Brion tomb
1978
Chiesa di Nostra Signora del Cadore
1961
Palazzo Brusarosco
Palazzo Abatellis
1495
Villa Veritti
1955
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
1869
Casa Ottolenghi
1974