Marco Frascari
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Marco Frascari is an Italian architect and architectural theorist born under the shadow of the dome of Sant Andrea in Mantova, in 1945. He studied with Carlo Scarpa
and Arrigo Rudi at IUAV and received his PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania
. He taught for several years at the University of Pennsylvania, then as Visiting Professor at Columbia and Harvard, then he become a G. Truman Ward Professor of Architecture at Virginia Tech
and is currently director of the David Azrieli
School of Architecture and Urbanism in Ottawa, Canada. Marco Frascari is far more well known in the English speaking world than in his country of origin.
Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa , was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape, and the history of Venetian culture, and Japan. Scarpa was also a glass and furniture designer of note....
and Arrigo Rudi at IUAV and received his PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
. He taught for several years at the University of Pennsylvania, then as Visiting Professor at Columbia and Harvard, then he become a G. Truman Ward Professor of Architecture at Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...
and is currently director of the David Azrieli
David Azrieli
David Joshua Azrieli, is a Canadian real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of $US 3.1 billion , Azrieli was ranked by Forbes as the 8th wealthiest Canadian and 362nd in the world....
School of Architecture and Urbanism in Ottawa, Canada. Marco Frascari is far more well known in the English speaking world than in his country of origin.
Publications
- Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination" (2011)Routledge
- Monsters of Architecture (1991)download .pdf
- "The Tell-the-Tale-Detail," (1981)
- "Una Pillola per sognare ... una casa (1996)
- "Due Anni di Esperienze dello Studio Estivo dell’ Universita della Pennsylvania In Mantova (1994)
- "Architects, never eat your maccheroni without a proper sauce! A macaronic meditation on the anti-Cartesian nature of architectural imagination Nordic Journal of Architectural Research
- "Foreword to Alfonso Corona-Martinez’ The Architectural Project,2002
- "A tradition of architectural figures: a search for Vita Beata” in Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture. George Dodds and Robert Tavernor, eds. 2002.
External links
- Collection at Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania
- Alumni profile - Pennsylvania State University
- World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition entry
- Architectural Maccheroni Article
- The Well Temperate Drawings of a reflective Architect Article
- "Architectural Synestesia: a hypothesis on the makeup of Scarpa's modernist architectural drawings" Article
- A">Light, Six-Sided, Pari Site
- http://www.erudit.org/revue/cuizine/2009/v1/n2/037852ar.html Canadian Cosmopoiesis: Meditations on Cuisine and Architecture
- Marco">Frascari's Zibaldone