ALDO ROSSI AND THE SPIRIT OF ARCHITECTURE

An essential new look at the Italian architect, writer, and designer whose work paved the way for the postmodern movement This cruci al reassessment of Aldo Rossi's (1931-1997) architecture simultaneously examines his writings, drawings, and product design, includi ng 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 transce nd the aesthetic legacy of Fascism in postwar Italy. Rossi was a vision...[Llegir més]