Brion-Vega Cemetery

This is considered Carlo Scarpa's most important and complex work. It has an astonishing detail and is mainly built in concrete, used in an incredible way. There is an extensive use of water. The architect said about this project: "I would like to explain the Tomb Brion. I consider this work, if you permit me, to be rather good and which will get better over time. I have tried to put some poetic imagination into it, though not in order to create poetic architecture but to make a certain kind of architecture that could emanate a sense of formal poetry. The place for the dead is a garden. I wanted to show some ways in which you could approach death in a social and civic way; and further what meaning there was in death, in the ephemerality of life other than these shoe-boxes." Scarpa died in 1978, in a construction site accident. He is buried in this cemetery in a standing position in a well-hidden spot, within the interstitial space created by the walls of the old and new cemeteries.