Carlo Scarpa--Layers

by Schultz, Anne-Catrin

• ISBN13: 9783930698141
• ISBN10: 3930698145
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-09
• Publisher: Edition Axel Menges

Summary

The first part of the book examines Scarpa's intellectual roots and puts them in perspective with former theories and their interpretation of architecture as layered, eg Gottfried Semper's theory of clothing. The second part displays an analysis of three projects, the Castelvecchio and the Banca popolare in Verona and the Querini Foundation in Venice.

Author Biography

Anne-Catrin Schultz has taught as a lecturer at the University of California in Berkeley and is currently teaching at the California College of the Arts and at the San Francisco City College.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
The principle of layering: precedents	p. 9
Layering and stratification in architecture	p. 9
Carlo Scarpa - stratified architecture	p. 15
Theoreticel fundamentals of the principle of stratification in the architectural discussion at the turn of the 20th century	p. 27
Stratification in Scarpa's work: influences	p. 35
*Cladding* in Viennese architecture	p. 35
Frank Lloyd Wright the model	p. 45
Japanese aesthetics: mobile layers	p. 53
The De Stijl movement: an architecture of surfaces and planes	p. 60
Venice	p. 69
A detailed analysis of layering in three examples	p. 78
Castelvecchio, Verona	p. 78
Fondazione Guerini Stampalia, Venice	p. 96
Banca Popolare, Verona	p. 112
Conclusion	p. 128
Afterword	p. 132
Notes	p. 135
Bibliography	p. 144
Index	p. 151
Illustration credits	p. 152
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