Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement. He was the first Italian to receive the

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for architecture.

Early life

He was born in

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. After early education by the Somascan Religious Order and then at Alessandro Volta College in Lecco in 1949, he went to the school of architecture at the

Polytechnic University of Milan The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 186 ...

. His thesis advisor was

Piero Portaluppi Piero Portaluppi (19 March 1888 – 6 July 1967) was an Italian architect. Biography Pietro (known as Piero) Portaluppi was born in Milan, son of the engineer Luisa Gadda e Oreste Portaluppi. He graduated in 1905 from the Istituto Tecnic ...

and he graduated in 1958. In 1955, he had started writing for, and from 1959 was one of the editors of, the architectural magazine Casabella-Continuità, with the editor in chief

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. Rossi left in 1964 when the chief editorship went to Gian Antonio Bernasconi. Rossi went on to work for Società magazine and Il_contemporaneo, making him one of the most active participants in the fervent cultural debate of the time. His early articles cover architects such as

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, Mario Ridolfi,

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and Emil Kaufmann and much of this material became part of his second book, ''Scritti scelti sull'architettura e la città 1956-1972'' (''Selected writings on architecture and the city from 1956 to 1972''). He married the Swiss actress Sonia Gessner, who introduced him to the world of film and theatre. Culture and his family became central to his life. His son Fausto was active in movie-making both in front of and behind the camera. His daughter Vera was involved with theatre.

Career

He began his professional career at the studio of Ignazio Gardella in 1956, moving on to the studio of Marco Zanuso. In 1963 also he began teaching, firstly as an assistant to

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(1963) at the school of urban planning in

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, then to Carlo Aymonino at the Institute of Architecture in Venice. In 1965, he was appointed lecturer at the

, and the following year he published '' The Architecture of the City'', which soon became a classic of architectural literature. His professional career, initially dedicated to architectural theory and small building work took a huge leap forward when Aymonino allowed Rossi to design part of the Monte Amiata complex in the Gallaratese quarter of Milan. In 1971, he won the design competition for the extension of the San Cataldo Cemetery in

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, which made him internationally famous. After suspension from teaching in Italy in those politically troubled times, he moved to

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, occupying the chair in architectural design from 1971 to 1975. In 1973, he was director of the International Architecture Section at the XV Milan Triennial Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Architecture, where he presented, among others, his student Arduino Cantafora. Rossi's design ideas for the exhibition are explained in the International Architecture Catalogue and in a 16mm documentary ''Ornament and crime'' directed by Luigi Durissi and produced along with Gianni Braghieri and Franco Raggi. In 1975, Rossi returned to the teaching profession in Italy, teaching architectural composition in Venice. In 1979, he was made a member of the prestigious

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. Meanwhile, there was international interest in his skills. He taught at several universities in the United States, including

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in New York City and

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in Ithaca (New York State). At Cornell, he participated in the ''Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies'' joint venture with New York's

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, travelling to China and Hong Kong and attending conferences in South America. In 1981, he published his autobiography, ''A scientific autobiography''. In this work the author, "in discrete disorder", brings back memories, objects, places, forms, literature notes, quotes, and insights and tries to "... go over things or impressions, describe, or look for ways to describe." In the same year, he won first prize at the international competition for the design of an apartment block on the corner of Kochstraße and Wilhelmstraße in central

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. In 1984, together with Ignazio Gardella and

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, he won the competition for the renovation of the

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, which was not fully completed until 1991. In 1985 and 1986, Rossi was director of the 3rd (respectively 4th) International Architecture Exhibition at the

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including further away display spaces such as Villa Farsetti in

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. In 1987, he won two international competitions: one for a site at the

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in Paris, the other for the

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in Berlin, which was never brought to fruition. In 1989, he continued product design work for Unifor (now part of Molteni Furniture) and Alessi. His espresso maker ''La Cupola'', designed for Alessi came out in 1988. In 1990, he was awarded the

. The city of

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in Japan honoured him for his work on the hotel complex ''The Palace'' and he won the 1991 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Public Architecture from the

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. These prestigious awards were followed by exhibitions at the

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in Paris, the

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in Amsterdam, the

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in Berlin and the

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in Ghent, Belgium. In 1996, he became an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the following year he received their special cultural award in architecture and design. He died in Milan on 4 September 1997, following a car accident. Posthumously he received the ''

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'' prize for his contribution to urban studies and the ''Seaside Prize'' of the Seaside Institute, Florida, where he had built a detached family home in 1995. On appeal, his proposals won the 1999 competition for the restoration of the

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, Venice and it reopened in 2004. In 1999, the Faculty of Architecture of the

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, based in

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, was named after him.

Work

His earliest works of the 1960s were mostly theoretical and displayed a simultaneous influence of 1920s Italian modernism (''see

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''), classicist influences of Viennese architect Adolf Loos, and the reflections of the painter

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. A trip to the

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to study

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also left a marked impression. In his writings, Rossi criticized the lack of understanding of the city in current architectural practice. He argued that a city must be studied and valued as something constructed over time; of particular interest are urban artefacts that withstand the passage of time. Rossi held that the city remembers its past (our "collective memory"), and that we use that memory through monuments; that is, monuments give structure to the city. Inspired by the persistence of Europe's ancient cities, Rossi strove to create similar structures immune to obsolescence. He became extremely influential in the late 1970s and 1980s, as his body of built work expanded and his theories were promoted in his books '' The Architecture of the City'' (''L'architettura della città'', 1966) and ''A Scientific Autobiography'' (''Autobiografia scientifica'', 1981). The largest of Rossi's projects in terms of scale was the San Cataldo Cemetery, in

, Italy, which began in 1971, but is yet to be completed. Rossi referred to it as a "city of the dead". The distinctive independence of his buildings is reflected in the micro-architectures of the products designed by Rossi. In the 1980s, Rossi designed stainless steel cafetières and other products for Alessi,

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, and others. Bonnefanten2013-04

Exhibits

For the

in 1979, Rossi designed a floating ''Teatro del Mondo'' that seated 250 people. For the Venice Biennale in 1984, he designed a triumphal arch at the entrance to the exhibition site. In 2006 two

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based on an original 1989 design by Aldo Rossi were erected in front of the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht by the Delft architectural firm Ufo Architecten. The

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museum in Rome staged a retrospective titled ''Aldo Rossi, The Architect and the Cities'' in 2021.

Awards

Aldo Rossi won the prestigious

for architecture in 1990.

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, architectural critic and Pritzker juror, has described Rossi as "a poet who happens to be an architect."

Architecture

* 1960 Villa ai Ronchi in

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* 1962 Competition for the Monument to the Resistance in Cuneo * 1964 Competition for the new Paganini theatre and Piazza della Pilotta in Parma * 1964 Bridge for the Triennale in Milan * 1965 Monumental fountain at Segrate * 1966 Competition for the district of San Rocco in

Monza Monza (, ; lmo, label=Lombard language, Lombard, Monça, locally ; lat, Modoetia) is a city and ''comune'' on the River Lambro, a tributary of the Po River, Po in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan. It is the capit ...

* 1967-74 Monte Amiata complex, Gallaratese Quarter, Milan, with Carlo Aymonino * 1968 Design for the town hall in Scandicci * 1971-84 Ossuary and the Cemetery of San Cataldo in

* 1972 Design for City Hall Muggiò * 1972 Primary school in

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* 1973 Documentary movie "Ornament and crime" for the Triennale in Milan * 1974 Design for the regional council headquarters and for a student residence in

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* 1976 Design for a student residence in

Chieti Chieti (, ; , nap, label= Abruzzese, Chjïétë, ; gr, Θεάτη, Theátē; lat, Theate, ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Central Italy, east by northeast of Rome. It is the capital of the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region. ...

* 1977 Design for a business centre in

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* 1977 Single-family homes in Mozzo * 1978 ''Teatrino scientifico'' * 1979 The floating 250 seat Teatro del Mondo and triumphal arch, both built for the Venice Biennale * 1979 Apartments in Südliche Friedrichstadt for the exhibition IBA 84 in West Berlin, Germany * 1979 ''Torri'' shopping centre in

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* 1979 Middle school in

Broni Broni is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italy, Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km south of Milan and about 15 km southeast of Pavia. Broni borders the following municipalities: Albaredo Arnaboldi, B ...

, with Arduino Cantafora * 1979 Monumental tower, Melbourne, Australia * 1981-1988 ''Berlin Block'' on Kochstraße at its junction with Wilhelmstraße in Berlin, Germany * 1982 Head Office of Fontivegge in

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* 1982 House Pocono Pines, Mount Pocono in Pennsylvania, USA * 1982 Isle of Elba cabins for Bruno Longoni * 1983 Design for the town hall of

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* 1984-1987 Casa Aurora, home of GFT Financial Textile Group,

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* 1984 Preparation for the ''Pitti-Uomo'' men's fashion event in Florence * 1984-1991 Renovation of

, Genoa * 1985 Preparation of a trade exhibition stand for GFT Financial Textile Group,

* 1985 Residential building in the Vialba quarter of Milan * 1986-1989 Palace Hotel in

, Japan * 1986 South Villette in Paris, France * 1987 Lighthouse Theatre, Toronto * 1988-91 Hotel Duca di Milano, Milan * 1988-90 Monument to Sandro Pertini, Milan * 1989 de Lamel appartements, the Hague, Netherlands * 1989 Urban plan for the greater urban area Pisorno, Tirrenia (Pisa) * 1990-1992 Residential building and former industrial area,

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* 1990-1993 Club House of the ''Cosmopolitan'' Golf Club in Tirrenia (Pisa) * 1990 Social health complex in via Canova in Florence * 1991 Administrative building for

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in Orlando, Florida * 1991 Contemporary arts centre on the island of Vassivière in Beaumont-du-Lac, France * 1991 Redevelopment of former industrial cotton mill ''Cantoni'' in Castellanza as the main campus of the

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* 1991 Post office and apartments near the City of Music in Paris (19th arrondissement), France * 1992 Reconstruction of the Teatro Carlo Felice in

with Ignazio Gardella * 1993 Personal Florentine wardrobe for Bruno Longoni * 1994-1998 Schützenstraße quarter, Berlin
photographs
* 1995

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in Maastricht, Netherlands * 1995 Regeneration of the former Kursaal area in Montecatini * 1996 Complex for a magazine in Berlin, Germany * 1996 Ca' di CozziAn appreciation of on of Rossi's last projects (for a central district in Verona).
central district in

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* 1996-1998 Mojiko Hotel,

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, Japan * 1997 Design for the Arts Factory district in

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* 1997 ''Terranova'' shopping centre,

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, Sardinia * 1999-2004 Refurbishment of

, Venice * 2000 Riverside Building at the Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, California * 2001

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Headquarters, New York City, USA

Product design

In addition to architecture, Rossi created product designs, including: * 1982 ''The Conical'' coffee maker and kettle for Alessi * 1983 ''Teatro'' chair for Molteni Group with the collaboration of Luca Meda; * 1987 ''Milan'' chair for Molteni Group; * 1988 ''La Cupola'' coffee maker for Alessi; * 1988 ''Il Conico'' tea kettle for Alessi; * 1989 ''Paris'' chair for Unifor now part of Molteni Group; * 1989 ''Decartes'' bookshelf for Unifor now part of Molteni Group; * 1989 ''Consiglio'' table for Unifor now part of Molteni Group; * 1989 Moment clock for Alessi.

Publications

* ''L'architettura della città'' ('' The Architecture of the City''), Padua: Marsilio 1966. * ''Scritti scelti sull'architettura e la città: 1956-1972'' (''Selected Writings on architecture and the city: 1956-1972''), edited by R. Bonicalzi, Milan: ULC, 1975. * ''Autobiografia scientifica'' (''A scientific autobiography''), Parma: Practices, 1990.

Gallery

File:Monte-Amiata-Housing-Gallaratese-II-Milan-07-2014c.jpg, Monte Amiata Housing, Milan (1969) File:San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena (39491410142).jpg, San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena (1971-84) File:Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova, Italy.jpg, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa (1981) File:Bonnefantenmuseum.jpg,

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, Maastricht (1990–94) File:Quartier Schützenstrasse Berlin.jpg, Quartier Schützenstrasse, Berlin (1994–98) File:Mojiko Hotel.jpg, Mojiko Hotel, Kitakyushu (1996–98) File:Scholastic Headquarters by Matthew Bisanz.JPG, Scholastic Building, New York City (2001) File:Museo mar desde cielo.jpg, Museum of the Sea, Vigo (2002)

References

External links

Pritzker Prize
web page on Rossi.
Bonnefanten Museum
on Aldo Rossi
Find and Tell: Kurt Forster on Aldo Rossi
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Finding aid for the Aldo Rossi fonds, Canadian Centre for ArchitectureAldo Rossi Foundation

''The Architecture of the city, theatre of the world. The tragic dimension of the architecture of Aldo Rossi between rationality and pathos'', Gina Oliva (in Italian)

''"Body and architecture. Aldo Rossi and Bernard Tschumi"'', Michele Costanzo (in Italian)

Designs of Aldo Rossi in the Francesco Moschini collection of architecture and modern art

* Aldo Rossi papers at the Getty Research Institute {{DEFAULTSORT:Rossi, Aldo Italian designers Postmodern architects Pritzker Architecture Prize winners Italian architecture writers Italian male non-fiction writers Urban theorists Architectural theoreticians Modernist architects from Italy Architects from Milan Polytechnic University of Milan alumni 1931 births 1997 deaths Road incident deaths in Italy 20th-century Italian architects