Architecture in Conversion and the Work of Carlo Scarpa

Illustrated by Scarpa’s drawings and sublime new photography, this book provides insight into Scarpa’s approach to conversion in architecture: more than simply a change of use, but about a sense of place and the evolution of building over time

The work of Modernist architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) is exemplary of an in-between practice, which is neither architecture nor conservation, but rather, architecture in conversion, dependent upon time, weather, and tempo. This book discusses the notion of architecture in conversion, revealing it to be radically different from current conservation practices, and to entail more than a change of use. Scarpa’s work represents ‘a radical turn in how we see or understand something’.

By Federica Goffi / Photographs by Prakash Pate 9781848225565