Archinect - News 2024-11-24T05:30:03-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149941125/the-stealth-modernist The Stealth Modernist Nam Henderson 2016-04-18T12:45:00-04:00 >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&rsquo;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 &mdash; commissions others might have scorned as too constrained by the past &mdash; 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&nbsp;Italy&rsquo;s "<em>less well known</em>"&nbsp;Modernist Master, Carlo Scarpa.&nbsp;She touches on the influence of&nbsp;Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan in his work, as well his relationship to Venice.</p>