Product Description

The Italian architect and theorist Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) gained international renown for his imaginative and starkly beautiful designs featuring simple forms such as cones, cylinders, prisms, and cubes. Among his most famous projects are the cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena; the Gallaratese residential complex in Milan; the Hotel Il Palazzo in Fukuoka, Japan; and Il Teatro del Mondo, a temporary floating theater created in 1979 for the Venice Bienniale.

This limited, boxed-set edition contains facsimiles of Rossi's notebooks for the years 1968 to 1986. Their pages are filled with Rossi's thoughts on architectural theory and history, his musings on progress, cities, and museums, and the impressions he recorded during his extensive travels. Handwritten in Italian and illustrated with Rossi's superb pastel and watercolor sketches, these literate and visually stunning notebooks display the genius of an architect and theorist who was, at heart, a poet of the visible.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2822841 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-04
• Format: Box set
• Original language: Spanish, Italian
• Number of items: 47
• Binding: Paperback
• 122 pages

About the Author

Aldo Rossi's L'architettura della citta (The Architecture of the City), published in 1966, is a classic in the field of urban design. In 1990 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor.

Customer Reviews

47 Notebooks written in Italian; very few drawings
Make sure that this is what you are looking for! I had thought there would be significantly more drawings -- there aren't. This set is a beautiful facsimile of 47 of the tiny notebooks Aldo Rossi carried for much of his life. These notebooks are handwritten, in Italian, and do not contain more than a dozen or so drawings. If you are looking for his drawings, look elsewhere. If you read fluent Italian and don't mind spending $600.00 for a peek into Rossi's thought process, then this is for you.

especially for architects
this is one of the books I am proud to have. it is a masterpiece in my private collection and I seek inspiration at my office just by reading it. if it is good architecture you like, this is an item you should own...