Aldo Rossi , born the May 3rd 1931 with Milan (Italy), deceased the September 4th 1997 in Milan, is a Italian Architecte.

After having obtained the diploma for the occupation of architect to the Politecnico of Milan in 1959, it becomes one of the writers of the review “Casabella-Continuità” of Milan of 1961 to 1964. He teaches in several schools of Architecture: “Instituto Universitario di Architettura” of Venice, in Politecnico of Milan, ETH of Zurich, “Cooper Union” of New York and Venice. Rossi was established as an architectural theorist in 1966 with the publication of its theoretical treaty Architettura beyond città . In this work and all its work, the city was its central theme. Its essays on the city concentrate on the traditional forms and buildings particularly in the area of the Lombardy where it grew. Although Rossi underlines the autonomy of architecture in a given culture, it also stresses the importance of an evolution of rationalism. In this book, Rossi analyzes the city as an architecture - specifies it in the introduction - but it is not according to him a simple conglomerate of buildings, it is the resultant of an unceasingly rebuilt long story. Similar premise, simple seemingly, breaks radically with the good urban number of constructions of the 20th century whose starting point is the ideal city that can be planned.

It obtains the Prix Pritzker in 1990.

Principal achievements

• Teatro del Mondo, Venice, Italy
• Sudliche Friedrichstadt Housing Complex, Berlin, Germany
• Ossaire, Cemetery of San Calaldo, Modena, Italy
• Central Commercial Torri Center, Parma, Italy
• Central Direzionale, Perugia, Italy
• Pocono Pines House Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania the USA
• 1986: Palazzo Hotel, Fukuoka, Japan
• 1989: Residences De Lamel, $the Hague, Netherlands
• 1991: Center Contemporary art of the island of Vassivière, Beaumont-of-Lake, France Photo
• 1991: Post office and residences beside the City of the music, Paris 19th,
• 1995: Bonnefanten Museum, museum modern art, Maastricht, Netherlands
• 1996: Newspaper area complex, Berlin, Germany

External bonds

• Photograph gallery of the Price Pritzker