Aldo Rossi
| Aldo Rossi | |
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(ca. 1986-87)
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| Born |
3 May 1931 Milan, Italy |
| Died | 4 September 1997 (aged 66) Milan, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | Polytechnic University of Milan |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Pritzker Prize (1990) |
| Buildings | Monte Amiata complex, Teatro Carlo Felice, Teatro La Fenice, Bonnefanten Museum |
Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design.
He was the first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize for architecture.
He was born in Milan, Italy. After early education by the Somascan Religious Order and then at in Lecco, in 1949 he went to the school of architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan. His thesis advisor was and he graduated in 1959.
In 1955 he had started writing for, and from 1959 was one of the editors of, the architectural magazine Casabella-Continuità, with editor in chief Ernesto Nathan Rogers. Rossi left in 1964, when the chief editorship went to Gian Antonio Bernasconi. Rossi went on to work for and Il_contemporaneo, making Rossi one of the most active participants in the fervent cultural debate of the time.
His early articles cover architects such as Alessandro Antonelli, , Auguste Perret and Emil Kaufmann and much of this material became part of his second book, Scritti scelti sull'architettura e la città 1956-1972 (Selected writings on architecture and the city from 1956 to 1972). He married the Swiss actress Sonia Gessner, who introduced him to the world of film and theater. Culture and his family became central to his life. His son Fausto was active in movie-making both in front of and behind the camera and his daughter Vera was involved with theatre.
He began his professional career at the studio of Ignazio Gardella in 1956, moving on to the studio of Marco Zanuso. In 1963 also he began teaching, firstly as an assistant to (1963) at the school of urban planning in Arezzo, then to Carlo Aymonino at the Institute of Architecture in Venice. In 1965 he was appointed lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Milan and the following year he published The architecture of the city which soon became a classic of architectural literature.
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