Not Every Architect is an Artist - Carlo Scarpa - 1/4 - AB+C 87
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- čas přidán 14. 09. 2021
- The first video episode of About Buildings + Cities!
We're doing a series of episodes on Carlo Scarpa, the Italian late modernist architect and noted master of poetic and idiosyncratic detail. Scarpa was from the Veneto, and trained and lived for many years in Venice.
He's an interesting architect to talk about for a number of reasons. He was a genuinely remarkable and unique stylist who created a distinctive and extremely individual language, synthesising traditional crafts with organic architecture, industrial materials and a set of carefully chosen references. He seems to mark a high water mark for a sort of extreme attention to the craft and detailing of buildings, super precise, relentlessly variation, total control of every aspect.
In this part we're planning to explain who he was and how he developed, and then we'll look in detail at one of his significant projects of the mid 50s, the Gypsoteca Canoviana.
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The additional of visual reference that CZcams is providing proves very useful as a listener
Yes, please continue this format. It's really helpful to actually see the buildings, urban areas, ect., discussed, especially as someone whose very new to architecture theory and the like.
Kindly continue this format
Extremely underrated channel , amazing and super educational content
Works really well!
Great to see you. Always wanted to look you up but here we go. We've learned a lot through your conversations and hope to see you keeping going for many more shows.
wow! finally I can see you!
The production is just lovely and You both, Luke and George, make the conversation sparkle. Thanks for all the unhelpful descriptions and keep it up, please!
thanks! working on the next one now.
I love this, absolutely great!
Love the format and love you guys!
I could listen (and have done) to you two talk for hours
Love it!
He's an artist, but I've also seen him referred has a craftsman, and I think that also applies neatly to him
sure... all of the above and more.
Ooh I was waiting for a video on scarpa!! Edit: Do you know when we might expect the next video in the series? I really enjoyed this discussion!
hoping to record another soon and release in a couple of weeks
Groovy!
2:00 it appears to be a play on words. "Scarpa" is Italian for shoe. Your shelter is shoe shop 'Scarpa d'Oro'.
Aha! That's a useful bit of info, thanks
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I just realised the name contains a further reference: la Scarpa d'Oro (the Golden Shoe) is the UEFA award for top-scorers.
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarpa_d'oro?wprov=sfti1
Btw, I thoroughly enjoyed your treatment of Alberti and Ruskin. The episodes on Michelangelo were beyond brilliant.
really glad you're enjoying them. we tried a lot of things on those ones, never quite sure how they land.
At last!
surprisingly we still have descriptive geometry in our first year in Aachen! (I think)
oh really! what is the course like? is there a textbook?
@@about_buildings Yes there’s kind of a textbook alongside increasingly complex exercises. The focus was mostly on drawing perspectives by exact construction I’d say, learning simpler ones first and in the end constructing one from a random angle, keeping in mind that it shouldn’t be distorted etc etc..
We didn’t even go into shadows for example.
I personally found it relatively boring, even though doing the exercises with a partner made it more fun and if you payed attention to the details (right lineweight, really exact construction and so on) it was relatively easy to do well
Edit: Oh and obviously there’s a professor who explained the principles and how to do the exercises in his lectures and was always open to any questions while we were working
let the sandwich at the desk for the brits 😄
Do an episode on constantine melnikov and other constructivists?
ah yes that would be fun -- can be hard to know what to include an what to leave out though
Who are these people? Very enjoyable content. 46:37 fav room
hello will, is this your natural habitat
Scarpa means 'boot' in Italian doesn't it? .... I don't think that shop was necessarily a rip off of Carlo Scarpa's work at all?
still, if the Brion tomb is pretentious regards the care taken over a rich couple's sarcophagi .... the only reason Scarpa did it so carefully is that something might rub off on the next generation of architects isn't it? and it would be pretentious to suggest only architects could benefit from drawing inspiration from his work.
Lower level architects are so arch, so over concerned by saving the world by using wood ????? that much of the current output is completely BORING at the moment.
Better not to talk about Canova if you don’t know about sculpture (yellow shirt).
The teaching level of European Art history in UK is quite scary…