Massimo Scolari

Massimo Scolari (born in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, Italy, March 31, 1943{{cite web|url=http://www.massimoscolari.it/?page_id=157 |title=Biography '43 - 60s |publisher=Massimoscolari.it |access-date=2022-10-31 }}), 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, Cooper Union in New York City, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, Technische Universität in Vienna, Harvard University, and University of Cambridge. From 2006, he was a Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. {{cite web|url=http://www.massimoscolari.it/?page_id=230 |title=Biography |publisher=Massimoscolari.it |access-date=2022-10-31 }}

He is the editor of “Controspazio”, “Casabella”, “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 and Yves Tanguy. Pyramids and ziggurats, dams and forts, axonometric forms are used to create a new architectural "illogic".{{cite news|author=Hal Foster |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/198007/massimo-scolari-68414 |title=Reviews: New York - Massimo Scolari, The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies |work=Artforum |date=September 1980 |pages=63–64 |access-date=2022-10-31 }}

He has held exhibitions in Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States. His works are in the permanent collections at the MoMA (New York),{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/8125 |title=Massimo Scolari - Italian, born 1943 |publisher=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=2022-10-31 }} the German Architecture Museum (Frankfurt),{{cite web|url=https://dam-online.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Scolari_Massimo_Suchausgabe_2020.pdf|language=de|publisher=German Architecture Museum|title=Scolari Massimo Suchausgabe|year=2020|trans-title=Scolari Massimo search results|access-date=2022-10-31}} and the Centre Pompidou (Paris).{{cite web|url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/personne/cK5rkL|title=Massimo Scolari, Architecte|language=fr|work=Artist/personality|publisher=Centre Pompidou|access-date=2022-10-31}}

Scolari's drawings were featured in the book Postmodern Visions: Drawings, Paintings, and Models by Contemporary Architects (1985).{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780896595699 |title=Postmodern Visions: Drawings, Paintings, and Models by Contemporary Architects |publisher=Publishers Weekly |access-date=2022-10-31 }} He has published his own books of (or about) his work, including Hypnos (1986).{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780847807918 |title=Hypnos |publisher=Publishers Weekly |access-date=2022-10-31 }} Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967–2012 (2012) is the catalogue of a retrospective exhibit held at the Yale School of Architecture, curated by Scolari himself.{{cite web|url=https://www.archdaily.com/200162/massimo-scolari-the-representation-of-architecture-1967%25e2%2580%25932012-exhibition|title=Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967–2012 Exhibition|work=ArchDaily|first=Alison|last=Furuto|date=January 24, 2012}} Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective (2012) includes a series of essays and writing about his alternative approach to perception and representation. {{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780262017749 |title=Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective |publisher=Publishers Weekly |access-date=2022-10-31 }} Pensar y representar (2013) provides an intellectual history of axonometric drawing and 'anti perspectives', central to Scolari's art. {{cite news|author=Eduardo Prieto |url=https://arquitecturaviva.com/books/oblique-drawing |title=Pensar y representar - Axonometrics, Symbolic Forms |work=Arquitectura Viva |date=June 30, 2013 |access-date=2022-10-31 }}

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 in New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.gizmoweb.org/2014/04/massimo-scolari-wins-the-arnold-w-brunner-memorial-prize/|title=Massimo Scolari wins the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize|work=Gizmo|date=2 April 2014|access-date=2022-10-31}}