Carlo Scarpa – the Architect of Perfection

During his lifetime he was often judged for his lack of architectural diploma and even after his death this fact was mentioned every time in all articles about him or in the forewords to his very few interviews. As he himself admits in the last published conversation with the journalist, it was this disparaging reaction that played a key role in his agreement to become the dean of the Venetian Architectural Institute, literally “it was my little revenge to all friends and enemies who constantly told me that I did not get an architectural education. I knew very well that I am not really suitable to be a dean because I do not have the vein of an organizer.” In two and a half years, however, he will give up this work and concentrate entirely on architecture and design. At the end of his life he was constrained in money, but when he had a little bit of them he bought books. Today huge sums are earned on his name and works and his fame has long become international. I wonder what the architect, painter, sculptor, designer and, most importantly, the Venetian Carlo Scarpa would say on that if he would be alive now?