Archinect - News2024-05-03T19:53:17-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/149941125/the-stealth-modernist
The Stealth Modernist Nam Henderson2016-04-18T12:45:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/mj/mjwtzj6lzzy85xkv.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>His architecture was an antidote to the era’s brazen showiness: subtle and natural instead of flashy and proudly artificial. Although he built a handful of private homes and public buildings from the ground up, his reputation was made by his reimaginings of centuries-old museums — commissions others might have scorned as too constrained by the past — in the process of which he created a road map for both honoring history and transcending it.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Nancy Hass praises Italy’s "<em>less well known</em>" Modernist Master, Carlo Scarpa. She touches on the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan in his work, as well his relationship to Venice.</p>