Castelvecchio in Verona
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2001
edited by Domenico Luciani with Patrizia Boschiero and Luigi Latini
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Treviso 2001
48 pages
78 illustrations in colour and 43 black and white
out of print
Spaces and manmade elements together create a surprising arrangement of towers, courtyards, gardens, museum routes in which rooms and open spaces, horizontal and vertical communicating paths alternate uninterruptedly. Many pieces have been erected, dismantled, erected again, added and taken away by historical events spread aver at least two millennia. Despite this, as a whole it provides a unitary historical testimony.
Castelvecchio has a perceptible vitality – a demonstration that the quality of a place and its very identity are fist of all given by the endless striving towards new balances between conservation and innovation; this balance can only be found within a co-ordinated, authoritative administration of the place. For half a century now Castelvecchio has been expressing its nature in the form and life of a museum that has not become a museum piece in itself, but acts as a gravitational centre for acquiring knowledge of its own history, the town’s history and the history of the town’s arts.
Contents
Premio Internazionale Carlo Scarpa per il Giardino, 4
Regolamento e giuria, 5
Cerimonia della didicesima edizione, 6
Motivazione della giuria, 7
Un regesto per Castelvecchio, a cura di Luigi Latini e Simonetta Zanon, 10
Mariapia Cunico, Carlo Scarpa e il giardino di Castelvecchio. Conversazione con Arrigo Rudi, 32
Alba Di Lieto, Castelvecchio come cantiere permanente, 36
Paola Marini, «Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga com’è, bisogna che tutto cambi», 39
Bibliografia essenziale, 43
Jury’s statements of reasons, 45
Referenze sulle illustrazioni, 46
