![]() ![]() ![]() In 1978, while in Sendai, Japan, Scarpa died after falling down a flight of concrete stairs. Aldo Businaro died in August 2006, a few months before the completion of the new stair at the Villa Palazzetto, built to commemorate Scarpa's centenary. It was executed for Aldo Businaro, the representative for Cassina who is responsible for Scarpa's first trip to Japan. This work is one of Scarpa's most ambitious landscape and garden projects, the Brion Sanctuary notwithstanding. One of his last projects, the Villa Palazzetto in Monselice, left incomplete at the time of his death, was altered in October 2006 by his son Tobia. His name has 11 letters and this is used repeatedly in his architecture. While most of his built work is located in the Veneto, he made designs of landscapes, gardens, and buildings, for other regions of Italy as well as Canada, the United States, Saudi Arabia, France and Switzerland. Scarpa taught drawing and Interior Decoration at the "Istituto universitario di architettura di Venezia" from the late 1940s until his death. He was Mario Botta's thesis adviser along with Giuseppe Mazzariol the latter was the Director of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia when Scarpa completed his renovation and garden for that institution. His architecture is deeply sensitive to the changes of time, from seasons to history, rooted in a sensuous material imagination. Hence, those who worked with him, his clients, associates, craftspersons, called him "Professor", rather than "architect". As a consequence, he was not permitted to practice architecture without associating with an architect. However, Scarpa refused to sit the pro forma professional exam administrated by the Italian Government after World War II. Scarpa married Rinaldo's niece, Nini Lazzari (Onorina Lazzari). Graduated from the Accademia in Venice, with the title of Professor of Architecture, he apprenticed with the architect Francesco Rinaldo. Carlo attended the Academy of Fine Arts where he focused on architectural studies. After his mother's death when he was 13, he moved with his father and brother back to Venice. Much of his early childhood was spent in Vicenza, where his family relocated when he was 2 years old. Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the techniques of the artist and craftsman into ingenious glass and furniture design. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1982 (Fondo Paolo Monti, BEIC).Ĭarlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape and the history of Venetian culture, and by Japan. ![]()
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