Carlo Scarpa (Venice 1906 - Tokyo 1978) was a highly renowned architect and designer in the 20th Century.
An important exponent of the Frank Lloyd Wright school of thought, known in Italy as “Italian rationalism”, Scarpa had a great reputation for good design.

Having studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, he quickly proved his designing skills by working with various glass factories on Murano.
The plasticity of glass stimulated Scarpa to keep experimenting with details, later to re-appear in his restorations and staging.

In 1948 he started working with the Biennale di Venezia and restored various buildings in Palermo in the 1950s. Scarpa had the ability to create masterpieces of rationality and museum organisation in confined spaces: a good example of this is his reorganisation and restoration of the Canova gipsoteca in Possagno (TV), the large Olivetti store in Venice and, again in the lagoon city, the reorganisation of Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia and the Museo Correr.

1800 - 2000 - - rev. 0.1.7