Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives. A visionary Italian architect; academic and theorist; Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary texts; which explore the intellectual; theoretical and practical substance of the architectural discipline. As a student in Venice during the late 1960s; Frascari was taught and mentored by Carlo Scarpa. Later he moved to North America with his family; where he became a fulltime academic. Throughout his academic career; he continued to work on numerous architectural projects; including exhibitions; competition entries; and designs for approximately 35 buildings; a small number of which were built. As a means of (re)constructing the theatre of imaginative theory within which these buildings were created; Sam Ridgway draws on a wide selection of Frascari’s texts; including his richly poetic book Monsters of Architecture; to explore the themes of representation; demonstration; and anthropomorphism. Three of Frascari’s delightful buildings are then brought to light and interpreted; revealing a sophisticated and interwoven relationship between texts and buildings.
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