Aldo Rossi was born in Milan, Italy in 1931. He studied architecture in Milan and was a teacher in the same in various Universities in Italy, Germany, Spain and the U.S.

2. Aldo Rossi
0 Aldo Rossi was born in
Milan, Italy in 1931.
0 He studied architecture
in Milan and was a
teacher in the same in
various Universities in
Italy, Germany, Spain
and the U.S.

3. Aldo Rossi
0 Aldo Rossi achieved
international
recognition in three
distinct areas,
- Theory
- Drawing
- Architecture

4. Aldo Rossi
0 Aldo Rossi’s career as a
theorist began to take
shape during the years
Aldo Rossi worked for
an Italian magazine
‘Casabella-Continuta’

5. Aldo Rossi
0 Aldo Rossi published the
book, ‘The Architecture
of the City’, which was
translated in several
languages and is still a
most referred Urban
design book.

6. Philosophy
0 Neo-Rationalism.
0 Historical reference (Post-Modernist)
0 Repetition and Fixation.
0 Influence from prominent Italian painters,
De Chirico and Sironi.
0 Utmost importance to the history of the place through
its monuments.

7. Neo-Rationalism
0 Rossi argued that the a city
must be studied and
valued as something
constructed over time.
0 Of particular interest are
the urban artefacts that
withstand the passage of
time. (Despite the modern
movement polemics
against monuments).

8. Neo-Rationalism
0 This post-modern
approach is known as
‘Neo-Rationalism’
0 Rationalism- a belief or
theory that, opinions and
actions should be based on
reason and knowledge
rather than on religious or
emotional believes.

9. Post-Modernist
0 Rossi was also classified
simply as a Post-
Modernist, because he
rejected aspects of
modernism and utilised
aspects of historical
styles.
A drawing done by Aldo Rossi,
depicts his influence of using
historic forms.

10. Repetition and Fixation.
0 Aldo Rossi engages in a determined search for
essential forms based on what is referred to as
‘Repetition and Fixation’.

11. Influence from Artists
0 Some of his designs were heavily influenced by works of
the painters, De Chirico and Sironi
A painting by the Italian
Artist, De Chirico.

12. Influence from Artists
0 Bonnefanten Museum – A three-Dimension incarnation of
De Chirico.

13. Works
0 Cemetery of San Cataldo, 1971-84
0 Gallaratese Housing, 1969-73
0 Teatro del Mondo, Venice.
0 Hotel il Palazzo, 1987-94
0 Bonnefanten Museum, 1995

14. Cemetery of San Cataldo
0 Was built around 1971-84, in Modena, Italy.
0 An award winning design by Aldo Rossi.

15. Cemetery of San Cataldo
0 Rossi’s design for the
sanctuary of the
cemetery, a heavy cube
standing on square
pillars with raw
square windows
carved out of
symmetrical layers,
stripped architecture
down to its essence.

16. Cemetery of San Cataldo
In a way, it had a severity
and total lack of
ornamentation in total
contrast to the cemeteries
of renaissance periods.

17. Cemetery of San Cataldo
Reflecting in many
elements the style of local
factories, the building
also fit into its context.

18. Cemetery of San Cataldo
It was envisioned to form a series of repositories like the
bone structure in human body.

19. Cemetery of San Cataldo
The cemetery is the
very embodiment of
this notion of
collective memory,
and Rossi here,
creates a haunting
and enigmatic city of
the dead.

20. Gallaratese Housing
0 Built in 1969-73 in Milan, Italy.
0 An enormous concrete structure built to house 2400
people.

21. Gallaratese Housing
0 Its design utilized simple primary forms and repetitive
elements in the façade.

22. Teatro del mondo
0 Built in 1979 in Venice, Italy.
0 It is a floating theatre.
0 This design fetched Rossi an international recognition.

23. Teatro del mondo

24. Teatro del mondo
0 A wooden clad
structure, featuring an
octagonal tower,
recalled the venetian
tradition of floating
theatres.

25. Teatro del mondo
0 The form is a
composition of
basic geometry ,
often seen in all his
designs.

26. Teatro del mondo

27. Bonnefanten Museum
0 Built in Netherlands, an inspiration from a painting done
by the artist, De Chirico.
0 Resembles a water jug.

28. Hotel IL Palazzo
0 Built during the years,
1987-94 in Fukuoka,
Japan.
0 Post-Modern style
0 Comprises mainly of
brick masonry with
expressed steel lintels.

29. Hotel IL Palazzo

30. Casa Aurora

31. Nemo Museum, Amsterdam

32. Also Rossi
0 Over time, his architectural sketches and drawings
became recognized as works in themselves and were
shown in major museums throughout the world.

33. Aldo Rossi

34. Aldo Rossi
0 Teatro del
Mondo in
sketch form.

35. Aldo Rossi

36. Aldo Rossi

37. Thank You…