Carlo Scarpa e il Giappone

How did Carlo Scarpa’s love for Japan develop? How did he come to know Japanese art and architecture thanks to his childhood friends whom he mixed with in Venice, like him fascinated by the East, in the city of Ezra Pound, and where the studies of Ernest Fenellosa were known? How did he travel and what did he see when in 1969 he arrived in Japan and entered the Katsura Villa, “where the eye thinks”, as happens, step by step, in the monumental Brion tomb at San Vito d’Altivole, to which Scarpa devoted the last years of his life? What tangible traces do we have of this journey and how to interpret them in the light of his work? This book answers these questions. Many photographs taken by Scarpa in Japan of artifacts by the “quiet masters” that he saw in Kyoto, Nara, Ise are reproduced here. They help interpret and understand the work of one of the greatest contemporary architects.