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works of Aldo Rossi
1. ALDO ROSSI (1931-1937)
Italian Architect, Theorist, Product Designer
‘Caught between the classical world and the industrial world’.
2. “One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its
people, and like memory it is associated with objects and
places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.”
“The Architecture of the City”
Aldo Rossi
3. SAN CATALDO CEMETERY
MODENA ITALY
Architect: ALDO ROSSI
Year of completion: 1971
Location: Modena, Italy
Type: Cemetery Complex
Style: Neo Rationalism
4. Entrance
Gateway Red cubic ossuary,
Funeral Structure
Communal Grave
Parallel running
ossuary
Wide green areas
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aldo_Rossi,_Modena_C
emetery,_Model,_c.1983.jpg.png
5. The Bounding Wall of
the Complex
Source:
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/laserdisk/0242/24216.JPG The interior
EXTERIORS
• Unadorned exteriors
• Static Volume
• Uniformity in
openings
• Discomforting Space
Source: http://www.archinomy.com/case-studies/1922/aldo-rossi
6. RED CUBE STRUCTURE
Source: http://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/arc-
318l-final-buildings/deck/1661624
Source:
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/mo
darch/byarch/display00242.html
Ossuary, funeral
structure
Rhythmic articulation of openings
interrupted by the ossuary cube
Square Pillars, Square windows,
Symmetrical stripped architecture
7. INTERIORS
• No Floor Slabs
• No Roof
• Windows and Doors
Source: http://www.archdaily.com/95400/ad-classics-
san-cataldo-cemetery-aldo-rossi/
“House of Dead”
Shell of
Openings
9. Communal Grave
Conical Grave at the End of
the Complex
Source:
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/mo
darch/byarch/display00242.html
Shape representing the
industrial Landscape beyond
the site
10. TEATRO DEL MONDO
Architect: ALDO ROSSI
Construction year: 1979
Location: Venice, Italy
Type: temporary theatre
Style: modern
According to Rossi theatres were “ places where architecture ends and world of
imagination begins
16. Is the museum a collection of mementoes of
life or is it itself a part of our lives? My
architecture leaves an open verdict in this
regard."
17. The design of the building is symmetrical and forms an E-shape
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-
EsEglcgTOqU/UNedBTo3QwI/AAAAAAAAAGw/So455PqkQjw/s640/bonnefanten.jpg
Axis of the building
http://www.cultuurnetwerk.nl/producten_en_diensten/bronnenbu
ndels/2000/2000_97c.jpg
PLAN
19. Rossi was a great product designer. Connection between his objects and
architecture were obvious. His timeless designs are based on simple geometrics,
primal forms. His Architecture was based on form.
22. SCHOLASTIC BUILDING
SOHO, NEW YORK
Architect: ALDO ROSSI
Year of completion: 2001
Location: Soho- a
neighbourhood to Ney York
Style: Post Modern
23. 6,700-square-foot store with the company's books,
magazines, CD-ROM's, videos, games, puzzles, toys and art
supplies.
Basement 299-seat auditorium
Penthouses
Green House atrium
Resource centre, Living Room, Offices,
Source: http://phaidonatlas.com/node/204196
24. A Building Fits in by Standing Out
Source: http://phaidonatlas.com/node/204196
TO FIT IN
• Uniformity in Height
and Scale
27. • MATERIAL USED
SCHOLASTIC BUILDING
LITTLE SINGER BUILDING
Source: http://www.nyc-
architecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm
Source: http://clapforbacon.blogspot.in/2011/08/cast-
iron-landmarks-in-soho.html
• CYLINDRICAL
COLUMNS
STEEL, GLASS TERRACOTA,CAST
IRON, BRICK
FRONT FACADE
REAR FACADE
• MONUMENTAL
REAR FACADE
RED ARCHES
5 TIERS OF TWO
STORIES
28. • BOLTED
HORIZONTAL
STEEL BEAMS
• DETAILING
ROOF
CORNICE
Source: http://www.nyc-
architecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm
SCHOLASTIC BUILDING LITTLE SINGER BUILDING
Source: http://clapforbacon.blogspot.in/2011/08/cast-
iron-landmarks-in-soho.html
Trabeated façade constructed with
steel lintels
Extremely ornate roof cornice with
iron brackets
• FAÇADE
DETAIL
29. INTERIORS
CAFÉ INSIDE THE BUILDING
Source: http://www.libertychurchnyc.com/lower-
manhattan-church-services-new-york-city/
Use of Steel inside as outside
PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE
Modelled on
Palladio’s 16th
Century
theatre
Source: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/scholastic-
auditorium-and-greenhouse-with-rooftop-terrace-new-york-
2?select=stnt0b09cRQUcKtG0vIOCQ#RZ0E_zLsUeIzuaU0Kr-
GGw
Teatro Olimpico (16th century Palladian Theatre)
30. arch critic Paul Goldberger, for one, has described the
building as one that "will teach generations of
architects the proper way to respond to historic contexts."
