"I Want A Pharoah To Pay Me to Build Him A Pyramid" - Scarpa 4/4 - Brion Vega + Olivetti - AB+C 90
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- čas přidán 8. 12. 2021
- We round off our series on Carlo Scarpa with two projects for Italian consumer electronics dynasties - the Olivetti corporation, for whom he designed a famous shop in Piazza San Marco, and the Brion-Vega family for whom he designed an extraordinary cemetery complex.
These are two of his most unrestrained, symbolically laden and elaborate projects - in which Scarpa's unique approach to architectural form, decoration, materials and narrative are most powerfully evident.
Thanks for watching, and all the best - back with you in 2022.
I really enjoyed this late part about scarpa but his first trip to japan was in summer 1969 with his son tobia for the cassina exhibition in tokyo
ah sorry, our mistake -- the way it was discussed by others made me think it was his first. thanks for correcting
@@about_buildings I liked this poetic image of him dying visiting for the first time the land he admired for his entire life, like a last trip towards the big empty void of japanese architecture, katsura, ise and then suddenly you die falling from a staircase (‘contrappasso’ for the master designer of them)
George! Please go to Venice for all our sakes'.
isn't the carlo scarpo reference to himself - the stepped concrete detail - a WWII bunker opening reveal reference crossed with the ancient?
Yeah the bunker is definitely in the background somewhere. I guess like all the best inventions it amalgamates a bunch of contradictory inspirations.
brion ‘hasn’t survived the test of time’? take me any of the zanuso sapper objects please
wait, did we say that? in what context?
@@about_buildings Luke remembering Brion in comparison with Olivetti but I might be wrong
isn't it Pharaoh?