Guido Pietropoli

Guido Pietropoli was born in Rovigo (Italy) in 1945 and graduated from IUAV in 1970 with Carlo Scarpa, with whom he collaborated until 1978, the year of the architect’s death in Sendai (Japan). In those years he has collaborated on the following projects: Tomba Brion in San Vito di Altivole, monumental organ for the Basilica dei Frari in Venice, Banca Popolare and Villa Il Palazzetto in Monselice, restoration and portal of the former Convent of San Sebastiano, seat of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice, staging of Scarpa's personal exhibition at the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects in London ) and at the Domus Comestabilis in Vicenza, Country Club in Vicenza and other. After Scarpa’s death the Studio Pietropoli completed the construction of Villa Ottolenghi in Bardolino near Verona.
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Studio Pietropoli has carried out the design of residential buildings, urban redesign, restoration of historic factories and paleo-industrial architectures and industrial design products. He collaborated with the Japanese company YKK which designed components for residential construction.

Guido Pietropoli taught at the IUAV, the Faculty of Architecture in Bologna (Cesena branch) and lectured at the following italian and foreign museums and institutions: Museo MAXXI in Rome, Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche in Treviso, MAK in Wien, Soane’s Museum in London, the Watari-um in Tokyo, University of Tennessee, Irvin Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in NYC.
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He recently took care of the Brion Memorial whose restoration engaged him from 2013 to 2021. He wrote numerous essays on Carlo Scarpa and recently published two books on his experience with the Venetian master entitled: «Alongside Carlo Scarpa" and "Carlo Scarpa 1968/1978 - Almost a tale".


He is currently working on a book of drawings by Carlo Scarpa for the Brion Memorial in which about 330 drawings (selected from the 2,200 kept at the MAXXI in Rome) will be published in chronological order and commented in order to reconstruct the "creative confession" of the architect.