Aldo Rossi Italian Architect, Rationalist Buildings, Milan Design Practice, Projects, Office
Aldo Rossi Architect : Italian Rationalist Architecture
Neo-Rationalism : La Tendenza, Italia – Contemporary Architecture
post updated 20 May 2021 ; 24 Sep 2017
Aldo Rossi – Key Projects
born 1931; died 1997
Italian architect + theoretician
Famous for rationalist buildings influenced by Adolf Loos & Giorgio De Chirico, and for promoting issues re urbanism & memory
Aldo Rossi was born in Milan, Lombardy, Northwest Italy.
Founder of Neo-Rationalist movement : La Tendenza
Perugia buildings designed by architect Aldo Rossi, taken on 25 July 2004:
photo : Dave Morris from Edinburgh, UK, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Key Aldo Rossi Buildings
Aldo Rossi Designs, alphabetical:
Ca’ di Cozzi, Verona, Italy
Date built: –
Gallaratese Quarter II, Milano, Italy
Date built: 1974
Design with Carlo Aymonino
Hotel Il Palazzo, Fukuoka, Japan
Date built: 1987
IBA Housing, Rauchstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Date built: –
IBA Housing Berlin
Mojiko Hotel, Fukuoka, Japan
Date built: 1998
Mojiko Hotel, at Kitakyûsyû Fukuoka Japan, photo taken in 21 November 2008:
photo : Wiiii, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
National Opera House, Genoa, Italy
Date built: –
Quartier Schützenstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Date built: 1994-98
San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena, Italy
Date built: 1971/72 ; unfinished
Via San Cataldo – Modena – MO – 41100
Phone: 059/334103
The San Cataldo Aldo Rossi Metropolitan Cemetery consists of an old part, built by architect Cesare Costa between 1858 and 1876 and a very modern part built by this Italian Rationalist architect.
Architectural Project
Teatro del Mondo – floating stage, Venice Biennale
Date built: 1979
More architecture projects by this Italian Rationalist Architect online soon
Location: Milan, Italy, southern Europe
Neo-Rationalist Architect Practice Information
The architect was the winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture 1990 – Pritzker Prize Architects
Education
Graduated Milan Politecnico 1959
Books
The Architecture of the City – L’Architettura della citta
1966
A Scientific Autobiography
1981
Casabella-Continuita magazine editor 1961-64
Teaching
Milan Politecnico, Italy
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
New York Cooper Union, USA
Instituto Universitario di Architettura Venezio, Italy
Architects linked to Aldo Rossi
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates
Rationalism is an architectural current which mostly developed from Italy in the 1920s-1930s.
Twentieth-century rationalism derived less from a special, unified theoretical work than from a common belief that the most varied problems posed by the real world could be resolved by reason. In that respect it represented a reaction to historicism and a contrast to Art Nouveau and Expressionism.
Rational Architecture (Italian: Architettura razionale) thrived in Italy from the 1920s to the 1940s. In 1926, a group of young architects – Sebastiano Larco, Guido Frette, Carlo Enrico Rava, Adalberto Libera, Luigi Figini, Gino Pollini, and Giuseppe Terragni founded the Gruppo 7, publishing their manifesto in the magazine Rassegna Italiana. Their declared intent was to strike a middle ground between the classicism of the Novecento Italiano movement and the industrially inspired architecture of Futurism.
Italy Architectural Designs
Italian Architecture Designs – architectural selection below:
Italian Architecture Designs – chronological list
Contemporary Italian buildings on e-architect – selection below:
New hospital Michele and Pietro Ferrero, Verduno, Cuneo, north west Italy
Architects: Aymeric Zublena of Scau Architecture with Ugo and Paolo Dellapiana of Archicura and Ugo Camerino
photo : Barbara Corsico
Hospital Michele & Pietro Ferrero, Verduno
Sant’Antonio Square, Trieste, northeast Italy
Architects: MCA
rendering : MCA / Incept
Musical Sant’Antonio Trieste, Italy Landscape Design
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