2116. Negozio Olivetti in Piazza S. Marco a Venezia.

 

Dear Aldo,

“An artist must create an optic, a way 

of seeing nature like it's never been 

seen before” (Carlo Scarpa)

Distinti saluti,

R

1566. Verona. Museo di Castelvecchio

Papá,

Sé que esta imagen te gustaría: lo antiguo fundido
armónicamente con lo nuevo.
Felíz cumpleaños. Te echamos mucho de menos.

R

1451. Torino. Mostra delle Regioni: Veneto, 1961

Dear Marco,

The Pavilion of Venice at the Turin 1961 Mostra delle 

Regioni had as its theme "The Sense of Color and the 

Rule of Water" and you can see in the picture that 

color and water were indeed the main forces in it.

Best,
R

494. Cimitero Brion a San Vito di Altivole, Treviso

Dear Michael,

"I defend the need for decoration in order to achieve a
life of expression and meaning in architecture and I
oppose the definition of spaces denoted by bare
stereometry and simplistic formalism" (Carlo Scarpa)

Best.
R

314. Verona. Castelvecchio-Cortile

Dear Terry,

Louis Kahn wrote a poem on Scarpa's architecture:

In the work of Carlo Scarpa
Beauty
the first sense
Art
the first word
Then Wonder
Then the inner realization of "Form"
the sense of the wholeness of inseparable elements
Design consults Nature
to give presence to the elements.
A work of art makes manifest the wholeness of "Form"
the symphony of the selected shapes of the elements
In the elements
the joint inspire ornament, its celebration.
The detail is the adoration of Nature

Sincerely
R