Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio Revisited

Richard Murphy will present research from his recent book, Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio Revisited.

Architect Richard Murphy was educated at Newcastle University and then at Edinburgh University where he later taught. His researches into the work of the Venetian Architect, Carlo Scarpa, at the Castelvecchio, Verona began in 1986 and culminated in exhibitions in Edinburgh, London and Verona, a book “Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio” published in 1990 by Butterworth Heinemann and in Italian by Arsenale in 1991 and countless lectures on six continents. He has also written a book on Scarpa’s “Palazzo Querini Stampalia” in Venice in the Phaidon Architecture in Detail series and published in 1993, also published in Japanese by Dohosha. He presented a film for Channel 4 on Scarpa directed by Murray Grigor which was first broadcast in 1996. In addition he co-wrote with Grigor “An Architect’s Appreciation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh” published by Belew.