Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari
Subtitle: The Pleasure of a Demonstration
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781472441744
Subjects: Architectural criticism
Description: Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives. A visionary Italian architect, academic and theorist, Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary texts, which explore the intellectual, theoretical and practical substance of the architectural discipline. As a student in Venice during the late 1960s, Frascari was taught and mentored by Carlo Scarpa. Later he moved to North America with his family, where he became a fulltime academic. Throughout his academic career, he continued to work on nu.