Carlo Scarpa

1906–1978 · Italian · 7 buildings on the wall

Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978) was an Italian architect and designer from Venice whose work drew on the materials, landscape and history of Venetian culture, and on that of Japan. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice but refused to sit the state licensing exam, so he could never use the title "architetto"; clients called him "Professore". He taught drawing and interior design at the Venice architecture school from the late 1940s until his death, and early in his career he designed glass with the makers of Murano.

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Much of his work reshapes existing places. In Venice he designed the Olivetti Showroom (1958) and renewed the ground floor and garden of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Scarpa ground floor and garden) (1963). At the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona (1975), his restoration between 1959 and 1973 reworked both the old castle and the display of its art. The Brion Cemetery at San Vito d'Altivole (1978), a group of concrete buildings with distinctive detailing set in gardens with water, is also where he is buried. Carlo Scarpa's work is studied for detail and the dialogue between new and old.

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