Marco Frascari

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Marco Frascari
Marco Frascari (1945 June 2, 2013) was an Italian architect and architectural theorist. He was born in Mantova,
Italy, in 1945. He studied with Carlo Scarpa and Arrigo Rudi at IUAV and received his PhD in Architecture from the
University of Pennsylvania. 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 Virginia Tech from 1998 to
2005. In 2005, he became director of the David Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University
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
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Monsters of Architecture (1991)download .pdf
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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
[1] http:/ / www. routledge.com/ books/ search/ author/ marco_frascari/
[2] http:/ / www. scribd. com/ doc/ 2441013/ MONSTERS-OF-ARCHITECTURE-by-Marco-Frascari
External links
Collection at Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania (http:/ / www. design. upenn. edu/
archives/ archives/ collection_a-z. htm)
Alumni profile - Pennsylvania State University (http:/ / www. arch. psu. edu/ alumni/ profiles/ frascari. htm)
World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition entry (http:/ / www. wtcsitememorial. org/ ent/ entI=122061.
html)
Architectural Maccheroni Article (http:/ / www. inmamaskitchen. com/ FOOD_IS_ART/ archcook. html)
The Well Temperate Drawings of a reflective Architect Article (http:/ / www. caus. vt. edu/ CAUS/ Newsletters/
asp/ Uploads/ frascari. pdf)
"Architectural Synestesia: a hypothesis on the makeup of Scarpa's modernist architectural drawings" Article
(http:/ / art3idea. psu. edu/ synesthesia/ documents/ synesthesia_frascari. html)
"A Light, Six-Sided, Pari Site (http:/ / www. emis. de/ journals/ NNJ/ Frascari_v4n2. html)
(http:/ / www. erudit. org/ revue/ cuizine/ 2009/ v1/ n2/ 037852ar. html) Canadian Cosmopoiesis: Meditations on
Cuisine and Architecture
"Marco Frascari's Zibaldone (http:/ / marcozibaldone. blogspot. com/ )
Article Sources and Contributors
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Article Sources and Contributors
Marco Frascari Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=559683298 Contributors: Blahm, Clpo13, D6, Dthomsen8, Iamnotiam, JForget, Johnpacklambert, Keegan, Kktor,
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