COUNTRIES | ITALY | WEEK 1 CARLO SCARPA THE ARCHITECT WHO MADE THE JOINT A MASTERPIECE When Architecture Stopped Competing With the Past — and Started Listening to It By Arindam Bose | BeEstates Intelligence | Architect | Designer Spotlight | Part 16 | Italy Week | May 2026 ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ Every Thursday, I Promise Myself I Will Choose Someone Who Designed the Future. I tell myself I will stay in the forward-facing lane. Someone whose buildings have not yet been fully understood. Someone whose influence is still arriving, whose structural grammar is still being decoded. I promise to avoid the retrospective. One architect. One building. One clean argument about what comes next. Then Italy Week arrives. And I find myself standing in Verona, in a medieval fortress that is also a museum, on a suspended concrete walkway above what was once a defensive moat, looking at the equestrian statue of Cangrande della Scala — a 14th-century warl...