Marco Frascari

Marco Frascari (1945 – June 2, 2013) was an Italian architect and architectural theorist.

He studied with Carlo Scarpa and Arrigo Rudi at Università Iuav di Venezia and received his PhD in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

He taught for several years at the University of Pennsylvania, then as visiting professor at Columbia and Harvard.

In 2005, he became director of the David Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Marco Frascari died in Ottawa on June 2, 2013 after a protracted illness.