Architect Carlo Scarpa stood between the ancient and the contemporary, the precious and the commonplace. He was born in Venice in 1906, and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 14, where, as Robert McCarter notes in the newly released paperback Carlo Scarpa, he learnt to “look at things... to see what was new and different in the modern world”. This seemingly simple concept proved to be a key characteristic of his renowned architecture and glass…
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