The Architects' Journal, March 27th, 2008
Carlo Scarpa's elaborate work takes you to a higher place, says Patrick Lynch I stated rather hubristically last week that mature architecture is the 'flowering of utility into poetry', and even asked 'how could you teach this?'I mean, we all studied poetry at school, and poets study other poets, but how come architects often study architecture without 'reading' other architects' buildings and writings? I find that in design conversations, architects often refer to 'the section of the Unité', 'the plan of St Peter's' or 'the unbuilt facade of San Lorenzo' in discussions about how light falls...
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