Editing Carlo Scarpa (section)

== Biography ==
Scarpa was born in [[Venice]] on 2 June 1906. Much of his early childhood was spent in [[Vicenza]], where his family relocated when he was two years old. After his mother's death when he was 13, he moved with his father and brother back to Venice. Carlo attended the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia|Academy of Fine Arts]] where he focused on architectural studies.<ref>{{cite book|title=Design of the 20th Century|first1=Charlotte|last1=Fiell|first2=Peter|last2=Fiell|publisher=Taschen|location=Köln|edition=25th anniversary|year=2005|page=633|isbn=9783822840788|oclc=809539744}}</ref> After he graduated from the academy with the title of Professor of Architecture, he apprenticed with the architect Francesco Rinaldo. Scarpa married Rinaldo's niece, Nini Lazzari (Onorina Lazzari).

However, Scarpa refused to sit the ''pro forma'' professional exam administered by the Italian government after [[World War II]]. As a consequence, he was not permitted to practice architecture without associating with an architect. Hence, those who worked with him (clients, associates, craftspersons, etc.) called him "Professor", rather than "architect".
[[File:Scala sfalsata - carlo scarpa in castelvecchio.jpg|thumb|left|[[Castelvecchio Museum]] stairs by Scarpa]]
Scarpa's architecture is deeply sensitive to the passage of time, from seasons to history, rooted in a sensuous material imagination. He was [[Mario Botta]]'s thesis adviser along with [[:it:Giuseppe Mazzariol|Giuseppe Mazzariol]]; the latter was the director of the [[Fondazione Querini Stampalia]] when Scarpa completed his renovation and garden for that institution. Scarpa taught drawing and interior decoration at the [[Università Iuav di Venezia|Istituto universitario di architettura di Venezia]] from the late 1940s until his death. While most of his built work is located in the [[Veneto]] region, he designed landscapes, gardens, and buildings for other regions of Italy as well as Canada, the United States, Saudi Arabia, France, and Switzerland. His name has 11 letters and this is used repeatedly in his architecture.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Frascari, Marco |title=Architectural Traces of an Admirable Cipher: Eleven in the Opus of Carlo Scarpa|journal=Nexus Network Journal|date=June 1999|volume =1|issue =1–2|pages=7–22|doi=10.1007/s00004-998-0002-4 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

One of his last projects, the Villa Palazzetto in [[Monselice]], left incomplete at the time of his death, was altered in October 2006 by his son [[Afra and Tobia Scarpa|Tobia]]. This work is one of Scarpa's most ambitious landscape and garden projects, the [[Brion Cemetery|Brion Sanctuary]] notwithstanding. It was executed for Aldo Businaro, the representative for Cassina who was responsible for Scarpa's first trip to Japan. Businaro died in August 2006, a few months before the completion of the new stairs at the Villa Palazzetto, built to commemorate Scarpa's centenary.

In 1978, while in [[Sendai, Miyagi|Sendai, Japan]], Scarpa fell down a flight of concrete stairs. He died of his injuries after ten days in hospital. He is buried standing up and wrapped in linen sheets in the style of a medieval knight, in an isolated exterior corner of his L-shaped [[Brion tomb]] at San Vito d'Altivole in Veneto.

In 1984, the Italian composer [[Luigi Nono (composer)|Luigi Nono]] dedicated to Scarpa a composition for orchestra in micro-intervals, ''A Carlo Scarpa, Architetto, Ai suoi infiniti possibili''.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Carlo Scarpa, architetto, ai suoi infiniti possibili |url=http://www.luiginono.it/en/works/a-carlo-scarpa-architetto-ai-suoi-infiniti-possibili/ |website=Archivio Luigi Nono (Luigi Nono Archive) |accessdate=3 April 2020}}</ref>