Top 10 Best "Carlo Scarpa" Products

Scarpa (Taschen Basic Architecture Series)

Sergio Los
Peter Gossel

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Carlo Scarpa

Francesco Dal Co
Giuseppe Mazzariol

Carlo Scarpa

Carlo Scarpa

This volume documents the complete works of Carlo Scarpa, one of the leadig Italian architects of the twentieth century. There are over two dozen essays by leading architects and architectural critics, including Bruno Zevi, Vincent Scully, Arata Isozaki, and Christian NorbergSchulz offering an extensive overview of Scarpa's life and career as well as lucid interpretations of his architecture.

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Carlo Scarpa

Maria Antonietta Crippa
Joseph Rykwert

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Carlo Scarpa (Big Series Art)

Sergio Los
Klaus Frahm

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Carlo Scarpa. Museo Canoviana, Possagno

Stefan Buzas
Judith Arthur

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Carlo Scarpa

Guido Beltramini
Italo Zannier
Gianant Battistella
Vaclav Sedy

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Strange Details (Writing Architecture)

Michael Cadwell
Nader Tehrani

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Villa Ottolenghi (One House)

Carlo Scarpa
Francesco Dal Co

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Guido Guidi

Antonello Frongia
Guido Guidi

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Carlo Scarpa--Layers

In recent decades, Carlo Scarpa's relevance has been steadily on the rise. At a time when architects have to use existing city and building structures as a point of departure for their work, his oeuvre remains a source of inspiration. Buildings such as the Castelvecchio in Verona show us that architecture is capable of communicating its own history, has meaning, and develops a contemporary dynamic of its own. Scarpa's layered architecture makes visible the process of becoming and the time-related sedimentation of material and meanings. It is especially at points of transition and interface that layering becomes a narrative element that elucidates the tectonic qualities of the building. Overlaying includes leaving a record of how an object came into being - either by means of the sediments of its history or through the intervention of the architect. In this book Anne-Catrin Schultz presents her research about the phenomenon of layering in Carlo Scarpa's architecture. Layering describes the physical composition of layers defining space as well as the parallel presence of cultural refer...

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Carlo Scarpa--Layers

Anne-Catrin Schultz

Carlo Scarpa

Carlo Scarpa

Bianca Albertini
Alessandra Bagnoli

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