Title & Author:

Scarpa : The Venetian / [presented by] Richard Murphy.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (43 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
St. Mark's Square, Venice. Flooded -- Venetian Pavilion, Italia '61, Turin -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. Entrance Bridge -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. New Entrance -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. Watergate & Pillar -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. The 'Androni' -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. Stone Door In 'Androni' -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. Stone Door In Olivetti Showroom, Venice -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. Sculpture In Garden -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. Staircase -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. Notched Concrete & Capital -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. Glass Tile Mosaic In Garden Wall -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice. Limestone Quoin Stones -- Palazzo Abatellis, Sicily. Centre Courtyard -- Palazzo Abatellis, Sicily. Interior Views -- Palazzo Abatellis, Sicily. Door & Two Busts -- Palazzo Abatellis, Sicily. Water & Olivetti Showroom -- Palazzo Abatellis, Sicily. Water At Brion Cemetery -- Castel Vecchio, Verona. Sculpture Gallery -- Castel Vecchio, Verona. Scarpa Drawing Of Facade -- Castel Vecchio, Verona. Pavement Of Prun Stone (A Pink Limestone From Italy) -- Castel Vecchio, Verona. Can Grande Statue Located.

Summary:

The late Carlo Scarpa is considered by architects as the great authority on how to intervene creatively in existing structures. His architectural language is entirely of the twentieth century, yet incredibly rich and uniquely interested in surface texture and the minutest detail. He has been called "the jeweller of the small". Though primarily a museum and exhibition designer, and mainly in existing buildings, he broke with tradition in that he treated every object exhibited as unique, and therefore to be considered for itself in relation to other objects, and to background and light and people. The architect Richard Murphy, a known authority on Scarpa's work and author of a book about it, has chosen in his talk to examine how Scarpa has understood the nature of Venice, the city of his birth and life, and how he has reproduced in his architecture a contemporary re-interpretation of Venetian phenomena: the presence of water and the potential disaster of its overflowing; the brick palaces lined with exotic and precious materials; the asymmetrical Gothic composition, colour, layering, detail, and so on. Above all, detail and how to draw attention to the very tiniest little things.

Subject:

Architectural design Italy.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural Italie.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
Italy.

Added entries:

Murphy, Richard, 1955 April 24-, narrator.