Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index.

Introduction : Verum ipsum factum -- A man of Byzantium who came to Venice by way of Greece : Glass designs, Murano -- Nothing comes from nothing : Ca' Foscari renovations, Venice ; Book Pavilion, entrance, and Italian Pavilion, courtyard, Biennale, Venice -- Beauty, art, wonder : Gallerie dell' Accademia renovations, Venice ; Correr Museum renovations, Venice ; Palazzo Abatellis renovations, Palermo -- Architecture determined not by the whole but by the part : Venezuelan Pavilion, Biennale Gardens, Venice ; Veritti House, Udine ; Church at Corte di Cadore -- Edification as the fostering of emotions : Gipsoteca Canoviana addition, Possagno -- Giving presence to the elements : Olivetti showroom, Piazza San Marco, Venice ; Gavina showroom, Bologna -- Working with traces of the past and expectations of future meaning : Castelvecchio Museum renovations, Verona -- Celebration of the joint : Fondazione Querini Stampalia renovations, Venice -- The wholeness of inseparable elements : Zentner House, Zurich, Switzerland ; Fondazione Masieri renovations, Venice ; Ottolenghi House, Bardolino -- The detail as the adoration of nature : Banca popolare, Verona -- Making the spirit explicit : Brion Cemetery, San Vito d'Altivole -- Conclusion : We only know what we make.

Italian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) is a unique figure in the Modern movement and even today his work continues to challenge accepted notions of modern architecture. While intensely revered as an architect of immense detail and consideration, no comprehensive monograph has been produced on this scale to date - nothing that approaches the breadth and depth covered by this title. With an illuminating text by Robert McCarter, who has developed a reputation and following for his meticulously researched, experentially-based, and jargon-free accounts of key figures in Modern architecture, this book provides the definitive study of Scarpa's many accomplishments, including such works at the Canova Museum, the Castelvechhio Museum and the Brion Cemetery, among others.