Diane Ghirardo
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This crucial reassessment of Aldo Rossi's (1931-1997) architecture simultaneously examines his writings, drawings, and product design, including the coffeepots and clocks he designed for the Italian firm Alessi. The first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize, Rossi rejected modernism, seeking instead a form of architecture that could transcend the aesthetic legacy of Fascism in postwar Italy. Rossi was a visionary who did not allow contemporary...
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 1990 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Aldo Rossi has achieved international recognition not only as a practicing architect, but also as an artist and author of architectural theories and urban design concepts. ʹHis work consists of primal forms and basic geometries that transcend categories and time; in the words of the Pritzker jury, 'his work is at once bold and ordinary, original without being novel, refreshingly simple in appearance...
