Marco Frascari

姓 名：Marco Frascari (美)
學 歷：美國賓夕法尼亞大學建築博士
專 長：設計理論與方法

經 歷： 曾任美國賓州大學建築研究所所長，現擔任加拿大渥太華建

築研究所所長，也是享譽國際的建築設計理論知名學者，同時也是一
名建築師；曾於義大利國際級大師Carlo Scapa的事務所工作，實務以


及學術經驗相當豐富。專業領域為 『建築設計理論』。
著有　The Tell-the-Tale-Detail (1981)
　　　Monsters of Architecture(1991)
　　　Una Pillola per sognare ... una casa (1996)
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　Marco Frascari is an Italian architect and architectural theorist born under the shadowof the dome of Sant Andrea in Mantova, in 1945. He studied with Carlo Scarpa at IUAVand received his PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

　He taught for several years at the University of Pennsylvania, then as Visiting Professorat Columbia and Harvard, then he become a G. Truman Ward Professor of Architectureat Virginia Tech and is currently director of the Carleton University School ofArchitecture in Ottawa, Canada. Marco Frascari is far more well-known in the English speaking world than in his country of origin.

　Frascari has written innumerable architectural essays that teach a lost language ofsensual architecture; an architecture based on the body, physical memories, symbology,alchemy, demonstrative logic, the nature of representation, and material magic.

　 While having a great lecturing capability to explain complex ideologies and architectural stories in simple and easily comprehended terms, Frascari uses the art of writing to demonstrate his architectural thinking. His essays and books utilize a deep,complexly layered language that is also consistent with his architectural theories.

　These very style of his writings reflect the very nature of his architectural sapience.

[creation of words. teachings based on the melding of arts. the nature of metaphor in architecture. etymological amalgams, Italian, English, Latin. a body of unlikely influences from cult artists or simply odd architectural stories that have never completely surfaced in the mainstream body of architectural education. (German periodical, jiri kolar, synesthesia) ..to be finished]

　The intrigued architect or student, having never have met or studied under Marco Frascari, will be puzzled by the complexity of his cosmopoietic view of architecture.

　This is due to the complexity and density of the semantics of his most published works (Monsters of Architecture and The Tell-tale-Detail), as well as the sheer rarity of these very titles (The Tell-tale-Detail has been translated in Spanish and in
Japanese).

　One could easily assume that considering the semantics of Frascari's writings, his students find themselves slipping into a realm of thought without production.

　Instead, he is a teacher that works through demonstration, and he demands the creation of physical artifacts.

　Many of his teaching techniques--by now infamous in the various schools where he has been--are the same methodology of his own instruction by Carlo Scarpa, reflecting Scarpa's own despise for the growing political nature of the modern movement.

　The mind-boggled, frozen-handed student of today's cacophonic, image-driven magazine world instead confronts a man who insists on seeing constant, yet HAPPY, physical production. Frascari teaches to DRAW, and to draw joyfully.

　One of the most well-known exercises that Marco asks students to do is a semester long building section.

　Architecture is a field of slow evolution. Due to the international nature of the various universities he has taught at, Frascari's students, many of which are already architects, are slowly beginning to carve Frascari's words into the constraint-filled world.

　We can only hope that by the time Frascari's reminders as to what architecture truly is come to fruition that true architecture, which is a function of humanity, will still have a placein our lives as we move through the fourth machine age and into the fifth.