Massimo Scolari (born in
Novi Ligure
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The town produces food, iron, steel, and textiles. It is an important junction for both ...
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Piedmont
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, Italy, March 31, 1943
), is an Italian architect, painter and designer.
Career
Scolari graduated in architecture in Milan in 1969. In 1973 he became a professor of History of Architecture at Palermo, and of Drawing at the
Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). Between 1975 and 1993, he was visiting professor at various universities including:
Cornell University
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,
Cooper Union
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in
New York City
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,
the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies
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IAUS (1967–1984)
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in New York,
Technische Universität in Vienna,
Harvard University
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, and
University of Cambridge
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. From 2006, he was a Davenport Visiting Professor at the
Yale School of Architecture
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.
He is the editor of “Controspazio”, “
Casabella
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History and profile
Casabella was founded in ...
”, “Lotus International” and is the director of “Eidos” (1989-1995) and a series of architectural books by Franco Angeli (1973-1988).
From 1989, he designed furniture for Italian design company Giorgetti, where he was also the art director until 2001.
Drawings
Scolari is known for his drawings which, according to a review of his 1980 exhibition in New York, takes the form of a critique of architecture which calls to mind the surrealism of
Salvador Dalí
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and
Yves Tanguy
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy (, ), was a French surrealist painter.
Biography
Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born January 5, 1900, at the Ministry of Naval Affa ...
. Pyramids and ziggurats, dams and forts, axonometric forms are used to create a new architectural "illogic".
He has held exhibitions in Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States. His works are in the permanent collections at the
MoMA
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Places
; Ang ...
(New York),
the
German Architecture Museum
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(
Frankfurt
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), and the
Centre Pompidou
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(Paris).
Scolari's drawings were featured in the book ''Postmodern Visions: Drawings, Paintings, and Models by Contemporary Architects'' (1985). He has published his own books of (or about) his work, including ''Hypnos'' (1986). ''Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967–2012'' (2012) is the catalogue of a retrospective exhibit held at the
Yale School of Architecture
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, curated by Scolari himself. ''Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective'' (2012) includes a series of essays and writing about his alternative approach to perception and representation. ''Pensar y representar'' (2013) provides an intellectual history of axonometric drawing and 'anti perspectives', central to Scolari's art.
Recognition
In 2014 Scolari was the recipient of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, awarded by the
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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in New York.
References
Further reading
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External links
Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scolari, Massimo
1943 births
Living people
People from Novi Ligure
Harvard University staff
Academic staff of the University of Palermo
Yale University faculty
Cornell University faculty
Architects from Palermo
Italian furniture designers