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CARLO SCARPA - LAYERS - ANNE-KATRIN SCHULTZ GEB...

In recent decades  Carlo Scarpa's relevance has been steadily on the rise. At a time when
architects have to use existing city and building structures as a point of departure for their
work  his oeuvre remains a source of inspiration. Buildings such as the Castelvecchio in Verona
show us that architecture is capable of communicating its own history  has meaning  and
develops a contemporary dynamic of its own. Scarpa's layered architecture makes visible the
process of becoming and the time-related sedimentation of mater-  ial and meanings. It is
especially at points of transition and interface that layering becomes a narrative element that
elucidates the tectonic qualities of the building. Overlaying includes leaving a record of how
an object came into being - either by means of the sediments of its history or through the
intervention of the architect.  In this book Anne-Catrin Schultz presents her research about
the phenomenon of layering in Carlo Scarpa's architecture. Layering describes the physical
composition of layers defining space as well as the parallel presence of cultural referrals and
formal associations imbedded in the physical layers.  Scarpa's work is an embodiment of
multidimensional layering  and  at the same time  a focal point for architectural movements of
his time that have stratification as their theme. In most buildings  the principle of layering
may be regarded as something that is part of the nature of building. Functional conditions call
for planes  elements  or 'layers' to provide the supporting structure  and others to protect
from rain  cold or the heat of the sun. However  architec-  tonic layering goes beyond merely
fulfilling technical requirements the principle of layering may be used as a formative method
that allows elements of different origins to be combined into a nonhierarchical whole. Layering
exists in a realm of complexity and implies a capacity of being interpreted that goes beyond
itself and creates references to the world at large.  The first part of the book examines
Scarpa's fields of influence and intellectual roots and puts them in perspective with former
theories and their interpretation of architecture as layered  for example Gottfried Semper's
theory of clothing. The second part displays an analysis of three major projects  Castelvecchio
and Banca Popolare in Verona and the Querini Foundation in Venice.  Anne-Catrin Schultz studied
architecture in Stuttgart and Florence  and earned a Ph.D. in architecture theory at the
University of Stuttgart. Following post-doctoral research at the MIT  she relocated to the San
Francisco Bay Area and worked for several years with Turnbull Griffin Haesloop and Skidmore
Owings & Merrill. She has taught as a lecturer at the University of California in Berkeley and
is currently teaching at the California College of the Arts and  at the San Francisco City
College.

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