Sekiya Masaaki's Photographs Illuminate Carlo Scarpa's Architecture

A new volume published by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche and Antiga Edizioni presents Japanese photographer Sekiya Masaaki's documentation of Carlo Scarpa's architectural works. The book, titled "Carlo Scarpa / Sekiya Masaaki. Tracce d’architettura nel mondo di un fotografo giapponese" (Traces of Architecture in the World of a Japanese Photographer), includes images from a 2023 exhibition at Ca' Scarpa in Treviso (April 15–July 16). Sekiya's archive in Tokyo yielded photographs of Scarpa's masterpieces: the Brion Tomb in San Vito d'Altivole, Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, Villa Palazzetto in Monselice, Monumento alla partigiana in Venice, Villa Ottolenghi in Bardolino, Olivetti shop in Venice, and Fondazione Querini Stampalia. The book also features a text by curator J.K. Mauro Pierconti, an architecture historian trained at IUAV with Francesco Dal Co, who researched Scarpa's relationship with Japanese culture and held postdoctoral fellowships in Japan. Pierconti currently manages Ca' Scarpa. Luigi Latini, director of the foundation, calls the book a critical contribution to Scarpa studies. Sekiya (1942–2002) also photographed Otto Wagner's architecture and early Khmer sites in Cambodia. The 224-page volume costs €30, ISBN 9788884353757.