Book description
Carlo Scarpa worked on the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona intermittently between 1957 and 1975. It is perhaps his most important project. His work there draws on all his remarkable skills. It demonstrates how to work creatively within a building which already possesses a complex history. It is a magnificent example…
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1 author picked Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio Revisited as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Richard Murphy is the absolute expert on the work of Carlo Scarpa on the Castelvecchio (now a museum) in Verona, Italy.
This book is an expanded version of his Carlo Scarpa & the Castelvecchio which emerged from detailed studies and measured surveys carried out in the preceding decades. The newer book is nothing less than magisterial in its coverage of one of the greatest ever examples of an architect engaged in creative collaboration with historic fabric.
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