Monday, August 07, 2006

but not for me...

i have begun to understand and appreciate better the works of Carlo Scarpa. he has given me a new perspective on old buildings. his works are just so beautiful. Beautiful is definitely the word to describe his works. i can recall 2 years ago i'd totally ignored CS. first time i took notice of him was while i was browsing through the shelves of the archi library. i pulled his book out of the shelve just because i thought he had a nice name. running through the pages i couldn't understand nuts about what he was doing. his work seemed old fashioned. it was somewhat similar to the works of frankloydwright, which i am not a fan of. who would've known 2 years later i would have picked up one of his book and could understand his intentions.

however the new installations done by Eisenman is horrible. totally incongruous with CS' restoration work of the Castelvecchio musuem. it's hideos! he totally ruin it. they should'nt have asked an american to do the job. it should had been european, i.e. CampoBaeza, even Renzo would have been a better choice. geez.

anyway, class in one hours time.

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