Carlo Scarpa
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person/Wikidata Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect and designer. He was influenced by the materials, landscape, and history of Venetian culture, as well as those of Japan.<ref>Carlo Scarpa and Japan. The influence of Japanese art and architecture in the work of Carlo Scarpa. lincoln.ac.uk</ref> Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and techniques of artistry and craftsmanship into glass and furniture design.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Biography
Scarpa was born in Venice on 2 June 1906. Much of his early childhood was spent in Vicenza, where his family relocated when he was two years old. After his mother's death when he was 13, he moved with his father and brother back to Venice. Carlo attended the Academy of Fine Arts, where he focused on architectural studies.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> After graduating from the academy with the title of Professor of Architecture, he apprenticed with the architect Francesco Rinaldo. Scarpa married Rinaldo's niece, Nini Lazzari (Onorina Lazzari).
However, due to his refusal to sit the pro forma architecture licensing exam administered by the Italian government, he was not permitted to use the professional title "Template:Langx" or practice architecture without associating with a licensed architect. Clients, associates, and artisans sometimes referred to him as "Template:Langx".<ref name="i576">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="y117">Template:Cite web</ref>
Scarpa taught drawing and interior decoration at the Istituto universitario di architettura di Venezia from the late 1940s until his death. Scarpa was Mario Botta's thesis adviser along with Template:Ill; the latter was the director of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia when Scarpa completed his renovation and garden for that institution.
While most of his built work is located in the Veneto region, he designed landscapes, gardens, and buildings for other regions of Italy as well as Canada, the United States, Saudi Arabia, France, and Switzerland. His name has 11 letters and this number is used repeatedly in his architecture.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
In 1978, while in Sendai, Japan, Scarpa fell down a flight of concrete stairs. He died of his injuries on 28 November 1978 after ten days in hospital. He was buried standing up and wrapped in linen sheets in the style of a medieval knight, in an isolated exterior corner of the L-shaped Brion tomb designed by him in Altivole.
One of his last projects, the Villa Palazzetto in Monselice, was left incomplete at the time of his death, and was altered in October 2006 by his son, Tobia Scarpa. Considered one of his most ambitious landscape and garden projects, it was executed for Aldo Businaro, the representative for Cassina who was responsible for Scarpa's first trip to Japan. Businaro died in August 2006, a few months before the completion of the new stairs at the Villa Palazzetto, which were built to commemorate Scarpa's centenary.
In 1984, the Italian composer Luigi Nono dedicated a composition for orchestra to Scarpa in micro-intervals, A Carlo Scarpa, Architetto, Ai suoi infiniti possibili.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Design career
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Scarpa was a designer as well as an architect. At the beginning of his career, he collaborated with glassmakers in Murano. He designed jars and chandeliers for MVM Cappellin & Co. and Venini. His designs for Venini have sold for high prices at auction, including a 1940 vase that sold at Christie's in 2012 for around $309,000, and another vase, found in a thrift store, which sold for $107,100 in 2023.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2013, the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa: The Venini Company, 1932–1947, featuring the designs and techniques he created for the Venini factory. “Their collaboration was put on display at important international showcases such as the Milan Triennale and Venice Biennale in Italy during the 1930s and 1940s.”<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Scarpa also joined the industrial design world in the 1960s after meeting Template:Ill. Scarpa became the president of the eponymous company, Gavina.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Doge table (1968) and the Cornaro sofa (1973) are his most famous.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Notable works
- Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy<ref>Scarpa carried out "sensitive restoration work" on the building.Template:Cite web</ref>
- Padiglione del libro d'arte, Giardini di Castello, La Biennale, Venice, 1950–1952<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Palazzo Abatellis: La Galleria Di Sicilia, Palermo, 1953–1954<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Palazzo Ca'Foscari, Venice, Italy, 1935–1956<ref name="d637">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="x646">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Venezuelan Pavilion, La Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1954–1956<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Veritti House, Udine, Italy, 1955–1961<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Museo Canova di Possagno, Italy, 1955–1957<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy, 1956–1964<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Negozio Olivetti, piazza S. Marco, Venezia, Italy, 1957–1958<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, 1961–1963<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Brion Tomb and Sanctuary, at San Vito d'Altivole, Italy, 1969–1978<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Banca Popolare di Verona, Italy, 1973–1978<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Restauración del Museo de Castelvecchio en Verona / Carlo Scarpa<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
References
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- McCarter, Robert (2013). Carlo Scarpa. London: Phaidon Press. (2nd edition, 2017)
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- Sonego, Carla (1995). Carlo Scarpa. Gli anni della formazione. Venice: IUAV, (unpublished thesis, Professor Marco De Michelis, supervisor). Template:In lang