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Title: Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
Description: New York, The Monacelli Press, 1999. Softcover. A matte softcover book with French flaps. The title is in white down a gray spine. Pages: (7), 8-253, (1). Illustrated with both color and black-and-white images. "'Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History' illustrates, through abundant reproductions of Scarpa's drawings, the ways the architect created a dialogue with light, space, and architecture within the historic fabric of Italian cities. Presenting these projects as they exist today, the patient eye of contemporary photographer Guido Guidi deepens our understanding of this timely approach to architectural dialogue." Contents are as follows: Introduction / Nicholas Olsberg -- Three Museums: Photographs / Guido Guidi -- History, Craft, Invention / George Ranalli -- Project and Portfolio Notes / Jean-Francois Bedard -- Palazzo Abatellis -- Canova Plaster Cast Gallery -- Museo di Castelvecchio -- Veritti House -- Olivetti Showroom -- Palazzo Querini Stampalia -- Banca Popolare di Verona -- Brion Family Tomb -- The Brion Family Tomb: Photographs / Guido Guidi -- Thinking with the Eyes / Guido Guidi -- The Art of Display / Sergio Polano -- The Renewal of the Castelvecchio / Alba Di Lieto -- Scarpa Today / Mildred Friedman. VG: Exlibary book. Sticker to the base of the spine. Clear tape at the top of the spine. Stamp on the inside front cover. Stamp and sticker on the inside back cover. Stamp on last page. Due date card on back inside flap. Stamps on top and bottom text blocks. There is a crease in the spine.

Keywords: European Architecture ; Scarpa, Carlo ; ; Architects and Firms - European

Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 203562

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