Carlo Scarpa

In the years of his maturity, Carlo Scarpa (Venice, 1906 - Sendai, 1978) found an ideal client in the Banca Popolare di Verona and the opportunity to create an extremely complex work, one of his few new buildings. Every part of the organism is painstakingly defined through numerous drawings and the façades in particular display constant reference to ancient architecture combined with a very modern vocabulary and the utmost attention to detail.
The book examines the development of the work and the contribution of Scarpa’s associates who completed it after the master’s sudden death in Japan, first and foremost Arrigo Rudi, as well as the recent restoration of the façades (2013–14), directed by Valter Rossetto.

Contents

Verona, a “Homeland” for Carlo Scarpa
Paola Marini

An International Identity for the Bank in Verona
Parallels, Coincidences and Dialogue between Carlo Scarpa and Contemporary Architecture
Maddalena Scimemi

The Genesis of the Edifice
Alba Di Lieto, Valter Rossetto

PS Post Scarpa. Interventions a latere and in limine in the Historical Head Office of the BPV
Alberto Vignolo

Marginal Notes
Simone Barnaba Rudi

“A Walk in Space”

The Restoration of the Façades
Valter Rossetto

The MAXXI Architettura Drawings
Some Hints on the Project of Banca Popolare di Verona
Elena Tinacci

The Cataloguing of the Graphic Material of the Banca Popolare di Verona
Lucia Tarantino, Silvia Dandria

“It Is in Details That I See Class”

APPENDIX

Banca Popolare di Verona, Cars Are Bodyworks
Carlo Scarpa

Carlo Scarpa, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Arrigo Rudi. Biographical Notes
Ketty Bertolaso

Selected Bibliography
edited by Stefano De Franceschi