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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. — NYT
Nancy Hass praises Italy’s "less well known" Modernist Master, Carlo Scarpa. She touches on the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan in his work, as well his relationship to Venice. View full entry
