About Rossi

• Born in Milan

• Considered by many to be the greatest Italian architect of thesecond half of the 20th century

• Achieved international recognition (theory, drawing, architecture,and product design)

• Influenced by Italian modernism, classicist characteristics ofViennese architect Adolf Loos, and painter Giorgio De Chirico

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The Architecture of the City” First published as L’architettura della citta in 1966 Proposes a return to reason & logic, history & memory, & the city the city must be valued as a construction over time. 

 

 

Themes Critique of Functionalism and Modernism’s utilitarian basis Autonomous monuments and the permanence of form A city of fragments, a city of monuments The memory structure of the city