Ca' Masieri, Venetian palace on Grand Canal in Dorsoduro, Italy

Ca' Masieri is a small palace with a triangular plan at the junction of the Rio di Ca' Foscari and the Grand Canal, next to Palazzo Balbi. Its three-storey brick facade has many single windows and a large water portal. Two chimney pots on the roof recall those of Ca' Dario.

Angelo Masieri died in the United States in 1952, and his family founded the Fondazione Angelo Masieri, which commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a student residence. In 1954 Venice's building commission rejected the project. Valeriano Pastor took over in 1962, and Carlo Scarpa produced three proposals between 1968 and 1969; his steel-and-concrete design was approved in May 1973. After Scarpa's death in 1978, Carlo Maschietto and Franca Semi completed the unfinished work, and the building opened in 1983.

The palace houses the Project Archive of IUAV University and shows exhibitions about contemporary architecture and design. You can see how modern artistic projects are displayed within the historical rooms.

Ca' Masieri stands in Dorsoduro beside Palazzo Balbi, at the mouth of the Rio di Ca' Foscari on the Grand Canal, a short walk from the Accademia vaporetto stop. After maintenance work it reopened to the public in spring 2024 with a cultural programme of exhibitions and events for the city, students and architecture scholars.

The two chimney pots on the roof echo those of Ca' Dario, a detail easy to miss from the water. Inside, Scarpa's steel tubular columns and exposed beams survive only in part: limited funds left much of his 1968-69 scheme unfinished when the building opened in 1983.