Carlo Scarpa - Softcover

McCarter, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714874205 ISBN 13: 9780714874203

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2017

Synopsis

The acclaimed survey of the life and works of the celebrated Italian modernist master, available for the first time in paperback

The work of Carlo Scarpa challenged, and continues to challenge, accepted notions of modern architecture. While several books have been published on his work, none has approached the breadth and depth of this monograph by Robert McCarter, who is celebrated for his meticulously researched, experientially based, and jargon-free accounts of key figures in modern architecture. This book is the definitive study of Scarpa's many accomplishments, including such works at the Canova Museum, the Castelvecchio Museum and the Brion Cemetery, among others.

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About the Author

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He taught previously at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 1991–2001, and Columbia University, among other schools. He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture, co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); and Louis I Kahn (2005), all by Phaidon Press. He has also published The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (2017); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); and Aldo van Eyck (2015), among other books.

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The acclaimed survey of the life and works of the celebrated Italian modernist master, available for the first time in paperback

Edition details

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0714874205
• ISBN 13: 9780714874203
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288