Profile: Marco Frascari

Profile: Marco Frascari

Person

Marco Frascari - Professor

  • Degrees: Dott. Arch. (Venice), M.S.Arch. (Cincinnati), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania)
  • Phone: 613-520-2600 x 2862
  • Email: Marco_ Frascari@carleton.ca
  • Office: 302 AA

Research

Neuro-Architecture; Neo-Medievalism; genetic and hybrid representations in architecture; architectural imagination; cratsmanship in drawings and construction.

Application

Neuro-Transactions in the profession: 1) architectural presentation, 2) design, 3) drafting construction documents and construction detailing.

Activities

  • Member of the editorial board of the architectural magazine Interstices
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association)
  • Member of the Assessment Committee of Canadian Architectural Certification Board
  • By Bishop appointment, Architectural Consultant to the Engineer in charge of Sant Andrea [Mantova, Italy]
  • Seminar (continuing education) on Neuro-Architecture for OAA

Journal Articles

Marco Frascari (2008), “Elegant Curiosity,” Log Architectural Magazine(12) (publication pending).
Note: a discussion of the role of elegance in architectural conceiving

Marco Frascari (2007), “Horizons at the Drafting Table: Filarete and Steinberg,” Chora 5.

Conference Publications

Marco Frascari, Jonathan Hale, and Bradley Starkey, “From Models to Drawings: Imagination,” From Models to Drawings 2007.