'Each object is meticulously considered'

摘要

For me, Castelvecchio offers wholeness. It's not simply a restored building with works of art in it, it's an ensemble with everything worked out. Many buildings move me, but none quite like this. When I go around it, I find myself smiling because I know where Carlo Scarpa is coming from, his thought process, his passions. It's as if I am in a silent dialogue with him. I first saw images of Scarpa's work in Michael Brawne's book The New Museum: Architecture and Display when I was a student in the early 1970s. I remember myjaw dropping.