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Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi

(ca. 1986-87)

Born May 3, 1931Milan, Italy

Died September 4, 1997(aged 66)Milan, Italy

Nationality Italian

Alma mater Politecnico di Milano

Awards Pritzker Prize (1990)

Buildings Teatro Carlo Felice

Aldo Rossi (May 3, 1931 – September 4, 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusualfeat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design.[1]

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Early lifeRossi was born in Milan, Italy. In 1949 he started studying architecture at the Politecnico di Milano where hegraduated in 1959. Already in 1955 he started writing for the Casabella magazine, where he became editor between1959–1964.

Work

Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht.

His earliest works of the 1960s were mostlytheoretical and displayed a simultaneousinfluence of 1920s Italian modernism (seeGiuseppe Terragni), classicist influences ofViennese architect Adolf Loos, and thereflections of the painter Giorgio DeChirico. A trip to the Soviet Union to studyStalinist architecture also left a markedimpression.

In his writings Rossi criticized the lack ofunderstanding of the city in currentarchitectural practice. He argued that a citymust be studied and valued as somethingconstructed over time; of particular interestare urban artifacts that withstand the passageof time. Rossi held that the city remembersits past (our "collective memory"), and that we use that memory through monuments; that is, monuments givestructure to the city.He became extremely influential in the late 1970s and 1980s as his body of built work expanded and for his theoriespromoted in his books The Architecture of the City (L'architettura della città, 1966) and A Scientific Autobiography(Autobiografia scientifica, 1981).

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Main works

Stainless steel kettle "Il Conico", 1986. Suchproducts have been designed for Alessi, Pirelli,

and others.

Exhibits

For the Venice Biennale in 1979 he designed a floating Teatro delMondo[2] that seated 250 people. For the Venice Biennale in 1984, hedesigned a triumphal arch at the entrance to the exhibition site.

Architecture

The Quarter Schüzenstrasse, in Berlin.

• Monte Amiata complex in the Gallaratese district of Milan, Italy(1968–1974) with Carlo Aymonino[3]

• San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena, Italy (1971)[4]

• Teatro del Mondo, Biennale di Venezia (1979) Disegni e foto [5]

• Apartments Südliche Friedrichstadt for the IBA 84 exhibition atBerlin (1979)

• Broni elementary school, with Arduino Cantafora• Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Italy (1981).• Centro direzionale, Perugia, Italy (1982–88).

• Palazzo Hotel in Fukuoka, Japan (1986–89).• Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1990–94).• Quartier Schützenstrasse in Berlin, Germany (1994–98) Photos[6]

• Ca' di Cozzi in Verona, Italy, his last project[7]

• Mojiko Hotel, KitaKyushu, Japan (1996-1998)

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AwardsHe won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1990. Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and Pritzkerjuror, has described Rossi as "a poet who happens to be an architect."

DeathAldo Rossi died in a car accident in September 1997 in Milan.

References[1] Celant, Germano & Ghirardo, Diane (2008). Aldo Rossi: Drawings. Milan: Skira. ISBN 978-88-6130-143-6.[2] http:/ / www. archidose. org/ Feb99/ 020899. htm[3] http:/ / carbon. cudenver. edu/ %7Earc67015/ aal-fara/ Synopsis. html[4] http:/ / www. significantcemeteries. net/ significant/ modena/ Intro. html[5] http:/ / www. designboom. com/ history/ teatromondo. html[6] http:/ / www. arcspace. com/ architects/ Rossi/ schutzenstrasse. html[7] http:/ / www. designboom. com/ eng/ exhibition/ rossi1. html

Further reading• Arnell, Peter & Bickford, Ted (1985). Aldo Rossi. Buildings and Projects. New York: Rizzoli.

ISBN 0-8478-0499-2.• Berlucchi, Nicola (2000). "Aldo Rossi: ricostruzione del teatro La Fenice[[Category:Articles containing

non-English language text (http:/ / www. area-arch. it/ home. php?_idnodo=173296)]"]. Area 51. (Italian)

• Ferlenga, Alberto (1996). Aldo Rossi. Opera completa (1993–1996). Milan: Electa. ISBN 88-435-5543-X.(Italian)

• Leoni, G. (a cura di) (1997). "Costruire sul costruito, intervista a Aldo Rossi[[Category:Articles containingnon-English language text (http:/ / icar. poliba. it/ storiacontemporanea/ letture/ leoni/ LEONI15. HTM)]"]. Area32: 44–47. (Italian)

• Pàngalos, Panayotis Mario (2008). The significance of time in contemporary architecture. Technical and poetictime: the case of Aldo Rossi. Phd dissertation. University of Patras, Greece.

• Polazzi, Giovanni (1999). "Aldo Rossi Associati - Area ex mattatoio[[Category:Articles containing non-Englishlanguage text (http:/ / www. area-arch. it/ home. php?_idnodo=173408)]"]. Area 46: 106–110. (Italian)

External links• Pritzker Prize (http:/ / www. pritzkerprize. com/ laureates/ 1990/ index. html) web page on Rossi.• Bonnefanten Museum (http:/ / www. bonnefanten. nl/ en/ about_us/ building_en_architect/ the_architect) on Aldo

Rossi• Aldo Rossi archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (http:/ / cca. qc. ca/ en/ collection/

541-aldo-rossi-archive)• Aldo Rossi Foundation (http:/ / fondazionealdorossi. org/ )

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