Aldo Rossi, the sketchbooks 1990-1997 : txt
Paolo Portoghesi ... [et al.].
- 192 p. ill. (some col.) ; plans ; 18 cm. book
Aldo Rossi's drawings Beloved architecture! Paolo Portoghesi 6 -- The Sketchbooks 1990–1997 text by Marco Brandolisio 24 -- Villa Alessi, Suna di Verbania 24 -- Carlo Cattaneo University, Castellanza 26 -- New Palazzo dei Congressi, Milan 32 -- Palazzo del Cinema, Venice 38 -- Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht 44 -- New headquarters for Eurodisney, Paris 54 -- Linate airport, Milan 58 -- Walt Disney offices, Orlando 64 -- Stage set and costumes for Electra, Taormina 68 -- Italian embassy, Washington, D.C. 72 -- Whitehall ferry terminal, New York 76 -- Landsberger Allee, Berlin 82 -- Schützenstrasse, Berlin 90 -- Marseilles port 98 -- Hotel and commercial development in the port of Moji 100 -- Technological park on Lake Maggiore 106 -- Theatre, Frankfurt an der Oder 110 -- Office tower, Mexico City 114 -- Leipzigerplatz, Berlin 118 -- Single family housing at Seaside, Miami 128 -- Spree-Ufer competition, Berlin 132 -- Walt Disney buildings, Los Angeles 136 -- Fiera di Verona 140 -- Square for the Italian Forum, Rome 150 -- Terranova commercial centre, Olbia 156 -- Fenice opera house, Venice 162 -- National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg 170 -- Museum of Figurative Arts, Leipzig 174 -- A happy city Giovanni da Pozzo 178 -- Angels and architecture Massimo Scheurer 180 -- Drawings and memories Michele Tadini 182 -- List of Aldo Rossi's drawings 184 -- Summary of Aldo Rossi's projects 1989–97 186 --
"Aldo Rossi, one of the most innovative minds of modern architecture, was born in Milan in 1931. He lived and worked in Milan and New York, building in Germany, Holland, France, the USA and Japan, and teaching at a number of universities including Yale and Harvard. He died in 1997 at the age of sixty-six." "Rossi is important not only for his buildings but perhaps even more for his ideas. His free use of historical styles, especially classical, places him broadly as a Postmodernist. But he was much more than that. Every project was carefully conceived in relation to a particular purpose and a particular context, priorities that come through most clearly in these irresistable colour drawings, reproduced here for the first time." --