Palladio - Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio :::

The seminar is organized under the Joint Committee for the knowledge and valorization of the cultural patrimony linked to Carlo Scarpa and his presence in the Veneto, instituited in 2002 by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali and the Regione del Veneto.
Carlo Scarpa’s sensitivity in staging art exhibitions was always accompanied by the intention to also express the technical dimensions of the process. Many of his most famous works were actually dictated by the desire to highlight the structural function of the architecture.
This relationship between structure and form has its roots in the oldest traditions of European architecture, and since the beginning of the nineteenth century has been defined with the term tectonic: the theme is linked to the possibilities of seeing architecture as a representation of a precise structural conception.
The aim of the course is to look for the sources of such tectonic conception in Scarpa’s work, in order to understand the degree to which different ideas of structure influenced the form of his architecture.
The programme is divided into three sections. The first is dedicated to studying the influence of Viennese architectural culture in Scarpa’s work, starting from the theoretical work of Gottfried Semper (1803-79) and continuing on to the experiences of the early twentieth century. The second consists of a visit to several of Scarpa works built between the 1930s and ‘70s. The concluding section will be dedicated to an analysis of the planning process through the study of some of Scarpa’s original drawings, in order to understand the origin of some of the more famous ‘structural nodes’ in his work, such as the ceiling transepts in the Museo di Castelvecchio and the beams in the Casa Gallo. Finally, thanks to the site drawings recently purchased by the Regione Veneto, it will be possible to compare the ‘tectonics and movement’ theme through the study of the moveable mechanisms that frequently appear in Scarpa’s architecture.

How to request admission
A limited number of applicants will be admitted to the course, which is open to all. The official language is Italian. To request admission, applicants must complete all parts of the admission request form and return it to the Centro by the date indicated below. This form is available on the Centro’s web site, www.cisapalladio.org, or in the secretary’s office. To facilitate correspondence, applicants are requested to provide a fax number or an e-mail address. Applicants will be chosen by a Committee appointed by the President of the Centro’s Academic Council, whose choices will be deemed definitive, on the basis of the information provided on the admission request form.

Deadline for admission requests
The admission request form must reach the Centro within, and no later than, September 30th, 2005, 12:00 am.

Directions for participation
Admission to the course includes the cost of group transportation during the course and tickets for admission to the monuments visited. Each participant must, on the other hand, pay his or her own travel expenses, as well as room and board. All chosen candidates must confirm (by fax only) their decision to participate in the course within 7 days of their official acceptance. At the same time they must pay a deposit of € 100.00 using a postal or international money order; this sum will be reimbursed at the conclusion of the course.
Any candidate who does not confirm and pay the deposit within the prescribed term will automatically be excluded from the course. Candidates must attend all sessions with regularity, in any case no fewer than 80% of the total seminar hours. If this minimum attendance requirement is not met, the Centro reserves the right to withhold reimbursement of the deposit and to withhold the certificate attesting to completion of the course.Eventual cancellations must be received by the Centro at least 10 days before the start of the course: beyond that term, the Centro reserves the right to retain the deposit.