Marco Frascari (1945 – June 2, 2013) was an Italian architect and architectural theorist. He was born in

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, in northern Italy, in 1945. He studied with

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and Arrigo Rudi at

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and received his PhD in Architecture from the

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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

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from 1998 to 2005. In 2005, he became director of the

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School of Architecture and Urbanism at

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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
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* "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

* 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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