Aldo Rossi

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Aldo Rossi was an influential Italian architect and theorist known for his rationalist approach and iconic, memory-infused urban forms that helped define postmodern architecture.

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Aldo Rossi canonical 6
Ricardo Bofill 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architect
architecture theorist
human
university professor
writer
awardReceived Pritzker Architecture Prize
Pritzker Prize 1990
causeOfDeath traffic collision
countryOfCitizenship Italy
dateOfBirth 1931-05-03
dateOfDeath 1997-09-04
educatedAt Politecnico di Milano
employer Cooper Union
ETH Zurich
Harvard University
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York
Politecnico di Milano
Yale University
ethnicGroup Italian
familyName Rossi
fieldOfWork architectural theory
architecture
urban design
genre architectural theory
autobiographical writing
givenName Aldo
hasPhilosophy city as an artifact
typological approach to architecture
urban memory
influenced postmodern architects
urban theorists
influencedBy European modernism
linked to: Modernism

Italian Rationalism
linked to: Italian modernism
knownFor influential role in postmodern architecture
rationalist approach to architecture
theory of the city as a repository of collective memory
use of archetypal forms and primary geometries
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
movement postmodern architecture
rationalist architecture
nativeLanguage Italian
notableWork A Scientific Autobiography
Bonnefanten Museum
Casa Aurora, Turin
Casa dello Studente, Chieti
Casa dello Studente, Trieste
Cemetery of Berlin (project)
Cemetery of Cuneo (project)
Cemetery of Groningen (project)
Cemetery of Modena (project)
Cemetery of Modena chapel
Cemetery of Modena colonnade
Cemetery of Modena columbarium
Cemetery of Modena courtyard
linked to: Modena Cemetery

Cemetery of Modena entrance building
linked to: Modena Cemetery

Cemetery of Modena funerary buildings
linked to: Modena Cemetery

Cemetery of Modena funerary chapel
linked to: Modena Cemetery

Cemetery of Modena funerary complex
linked to: Modena Cemetery

Cemetery of Modena memorial courtyard
linked to: Modena Cemetery

Cemetery of Modena memorial tower
linked to: Modena Cemetery

Cemetery of Modena ossuary
Cemetery of Modena ossuary building
Cemetery of Modena ossuary cube
Cemetery of Modena perimeter wall
linked to: Modena Cemetery

Cemetery of Parma (project)
Cemetery of Rozzano (built parts)
Cemetery of Rozzano (project)
Cemetery of San Cataldo (built parts)
Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena
Cemetery of Segrate (project)
Cemetery of Zurich (project)
Centro Congressi, Milan (projects)
Centro Direzionale, Florence (project)
Centro Direzionale, Perugia
Centro Torri, Parma
Disney’s Hotel Cheyenne, Disneyland Paris
Disney’s Hotel New York (masterplan contribution)
Elementary school at Broni
Fontivegge railway station, Perugia
Fukuoka City Hall
Gallaratese Housing Complex
Hotel Il Palazzo, Fukuoka
Modena Cemetery
Monte Amiata housing, Milan
Piazza Nuova, Segrate (project)
Piazza di Porta Savonarola, Padua (project)
Quartier Schützenstrasse, Berlin
Quartiere Fontivegge, Perugia
linked to: Perugia, Italy

Residential block at Friedrichstadt, Berlin
San Cataldo Cemetery
San Cataldo Ossuary cube
San Rocco Church, Modena
School at Fagnano Olona
School complex at Broni
Schützengasse residential building, Berlin
Teatro Carlo Felice reconstruction, Genoa
Teatro La Fenice reconstruction studies
Teatro del Mondo
Teatro del Mondo, Venice
The Architecture of the City
Unità Residenziale, Berlin-Tiergarten
occupation architect
architecture theorist
university teacher
placeOfBirth Italy
Lombardy
Milan
placeOfDeath Italy
Lombardy
Milan
sexOrGender male
workLocation Berlin
Fukuoka
Milan
New York City
Venice
Zurich

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Postmodern architecture hasKeyFigure Ricardo Bofill
linked to: Aldo Rossi
Rossi hasNotableBearer Aldo Rossi
Alessi collaboratedWith Aldo Rossi
Max Dudler studiedUnder Aldo Rossi