Opening to Culture: an invitation to structural beauty
On June 6th, our Oikos headquarters in Gruaro transformed into a space for reflection and discovery. A place where culture took shape through silent gestures, intentional details, and words that gave voice to architecture.
In collaboration with Casabella Formazione, we hosted Francesco Dal Co, architectural historian and director of Casabella, for a lecture dedicated to Carlo Scarpa — a central figure of the twentieth century, a master in blending craftsmanship, elegance, and design rigor.
Through Dal Co’s narrative, we explored Scarpa’s poetic and material universe: a language made of thresholds, layers, and paths, where every element — from staircases to handles — is part of a unique architectural story. A vision expressed in works such as the Gipsoteca Canoviana in Possagno or the Brion Tomb in Altivole, where light, materials, and memory intertwine in a contemplative experience
The afternoon began with a guided tour of our production site, to experience firsthand the processes and surfaces that shape Oikos entrance architectures. A sensory immersion that made the dialogue between matter and thought tangible. Opening to Culture was not just an event. It was an invitation to pause, to observe, to connect. To experience architecture not as mere aesthetics, but as a structure of meaning.
Thank you to all who crossed this threshold with us.
This is only the beginning.
