Marco Frascari (1945 – June 2, 2013) was an Italian architect and architectural theorist. He was born in
Mantua
Mantua ( ; ; Lombard language, Lombard and ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italian region of Lombardy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, eponymous province.
In 2016, Mantua was designated as the "Italian Capital of Culture". In 2 ...
, in northern Italy, in 1945. He studied with
Carlo Scarpa and Arrigo Rudi at
Università Iuav di Venezia
Iuav University of Venice () is a university in Venice, Italy. It was founded in 1926 as the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia as one of the first architecture schools in Italy. The university offers several undergraduate, graduat ...
and received his PhD in architecture from the
University of Pennsylvania
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. He taught for several years at the University of Pennsylvania, then as visiting professor at Columbia and Harvard. He served as G. Truman Ward Professor of Architecture at
Virginia Tech
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from 1998 to 2005. In 2005, he became director of the
David Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at
Carleton University
Carleton University is an English-language public university, public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to se ...
in Ottawa, Canada. Marco Frascari died in Ottawa on June 2, 2013 after a protracted illness.
Publications
* ''Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination'' (2011
Routledge* ''Monsters of Architecture'' (199
download .pdf* "The Tell-the-Tale-Detail" (1981)
* "Una Pillola per sognare ... una casa" (1996)
* "Due Anni di Esperienze dello Studio Estivo dell' Universita della Pennsylvania In Mantova" (1994)
* "Architects, never eat your maccheroni without a proper sauce! A macaronic meditation on the anti-Cartesian nature of architectural imagination" ''Nordic Journal of Architectural Research''
* "Foreword to Alfonso Corona-Martinez' ''The Architectural Project,''2002
* "A tradition of architectural figures: a search for Vita Beata" in ''Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture.'' George Dodds and Robert Tavernor, eds. 2002.
References
External links
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ttps://web.archive.org/web/20050321002837/http://www.arch.psu.edu/alumni/profiles/frascari.htm Alumni profile - Pennsylvania State Universitybr>
''World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition'' entry''The Well Temperate Drawings of a reflective Architect'' Article
* ttp://www.emis.de/journals/NNJ/Frascari_v4n2.html"''A Light, Six-Sided, Pari Site''br>
Canadian Cosmopoiesis: Meditations on Cuisine and Architecture
Marco Frascari's Zibaldone
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1945 births
2013 deaths
Italian architecture writers
Italian male non-fiction writers
Academic staff of Carleton University
Virginia Tech faculty
University of Pennsylvania School of Design alumni
Harvard University staff