Carlo Scarpa's <i>Monument to the Partisan Woman</i>

Architect Carlo Scarpa was one of the defining twentieth-century figures for design intervention in historic fabric; thus the preservation of his works poses particularly complicated questions of maintenance and material authenticity. Codello outlines the design history of Scarpa's sculptural installation Monument to the Partisan Woman in Venice and documents the state of physical disrepair into which the monument has fallen. The article describes how the physical conservation of the monument resulted in the paradoxical decision to let the monument decay over time, a decision that would in fact confirm Scarpa's original design intent.