Aldo Rossi, (May 3, 1931- September 4, 1997Milan, Italy) was an Italian architect. For the Venice Biennale in 1979 he designed a floating Teatro del Mondo that seated 250 that was towed out to sea. He also designed the National Opera House in Genoa. He won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1990. Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and Pritzker juror, has described Rossi as "a poet who happens to be an architect." May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location within Italy Piazza della Scala Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed of Italian regions. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect/Building designer is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. ... The Venice Biennale (Italian: Biennale di Venezia) is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes places once every two years (in odd years) in Venice, Italy. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Location within Italy Flag of Genoa Christopher Columbus monument in Piazza Aquaverde Genoa (Italian Genova, Genoese Zena, French Gênes) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. ... The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor a living architect. ...
Main works
San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena, Italy (1971-84) with Gianni Braghieri
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Rossi was born in Milan, Italy where his father was engaged in the manufacture of bicycles, bearing the family name, a business he says was founded by his grandfather.
Rossi articulated with precocious assuredness both the monument's pristine volumes—cube, cylinder, and prism—and a public arena for their elemental identities as tower, column, and fountain.
Rossi's apartment and studio, located in nineteenth-century enclaves of the city of Milan, appear, at first sight, unlikely laboratories for his far-flung projects; but their somewhat haunted familiarity, studded as they are with neatly framed drawings, models and objects of the architects invention, evokes a visit to the residence of a latter-day John Soane.
Rossi was killed in a 1997 car crash, but not before he had planned the two-faced high-rise, which...
Multiple talents: AldoRossi, Morris Adjmi, Gaetano Pesce, Sottsass Associati, Shigeru Uchida and Shiro Kuramata contribute to the design of Il Palazzo, a hotel in Fukuoka, Japan.
AldoRossi was born in Milan, Italy, on May 3, 1931.
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