Aldo Rossi Edit

(1931-1997, Italia)  People | Architect

( fr ) Aldo Rossi, (May 3, 1931- September 4, 1997 Milan, Italy) was an Italian architect who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in three distinct areas: theory, drawing, and architecture. His earliest works of the 1960s were mostly theoretical and displayed a simultaneous influence of 1920s Italian modernism (see Giuseppe Terragni), classicist influences of 19th century architect Adolf Loos, and the reflections of the painter Giorgio De Chirico. He became extremely influential in the late 1970s and 1980s as his body of built work expanded and for his theories promoted in his books 'The Architecture of the City' (1966) and 'A Scientific Autobiography' (1981).