Carlo Scarpa: a+u Special Issue Reprint (a+u 85:10) brings back into circulation the landmark 1985 monograph on one of the twentieth century's most materially exacting architects, reissued 40 years after its original publication to reassert Scarpa's enduring relevance to questions of craft, detail, and construction.
About This Book
Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978) worked across architecture, museum design, and glassware with a singularity that resists easy categorisation. What united these fields was his deep investment in making: the techniques of construction, the behaviour of materials, and the creative possibilities — and constraints — embedded in each. This reprint of the October 1985 extra edition of a+u presents a complete survey of Scarpa's designs, originally compiled while his influence was still being absorbed by the profession. Revived four decades on, it functions as both a historical document and a sustained argument for the kind of tectonic intelligence that Scarpa embodied. Essential reading for architects concerned with materiality, craft, and the relationship between design intent and built form.
Key Features
- 264 pages of project documentation, drawings, and photography surveying the full scope of Scarpa's design work
- Reprint of the original October 1985 extra edition of a+u, reissued for its 40th anniversary
- Published by Shinkenchiku-sha, 1985 (reissued 2025)
What You'll Discover
- How Scarpa's engagement with the technical limits of materials — in glassware as much as in architecture — became the generative engine of his design thinking
- The breadth of Scarpa's output across architecture and design, presented as a coherent body of work rather than a collection of singular moments
- The centrality of construction knowledge to Scarpa's design process, and what that model of practice suggests for architects today
- Why this monograph, first assembled in 1985, remains one of the most thorough surveys of Scarpa's complete designs
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 264
- Dimensions: 220 x 290 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9784900213166
- Publisher: Shinkenchiku-sha
- Publication Date: 1985 (reissued 2025)
Perfect For: Architects, historians, and students drawn to questions of craft and tectonic detail, museum designers, and anyone building a serious library around the masters of twentieth-century Italian architecture.