Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) is considered one of the most representative artists of the 20th century. He was an architect, designer and teacher with an eclectic personality. In 1927 he began a collaboration with Murano glass masters, and worked as a designer for the company Cappellini and C., where he experimented for four years, the quality and creative possibilities that glass as a material offers. This was an important precedent for his collaboration with Venini, where from 1934 to 1947 Scarpa served as the company's artistic director. Since 1948, with the staging of the Paul Klee retrospective exhibition, he began a long and prolific collaboration with the Venice Biennale, where he experienced his great qualities as a builder of spaces for works of art.

When he turned thirty, Scarpa did his first major job in Venice: the adaptation of Ca' Foscari, headquarters of the university. His intervention took place mainly in the Rectorate and the Assembly Hall. In 1956 he won the Olivetti National Prize for Architecture and the same company commissioned him to design an Olivetti showroom in St. Mark's Square in Venice. Also famous is his intervention at the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice.

Main buildings in Venice