MELANCHOLY AND ARCHITECTURE / ON ALDO ROSSI

Diogo Seixas Lopes traces melancholy in the architecture of world-famous architect Aldo Rossi. Through a close exploration of one of Rossis landmark creations, the Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena, Lopes shows how this brilliant, innovative architect reinterpret ed a typology of the past to help us come to terms with representations of death and the deep sadness that inevitably accompanies it .