Aldo Rossi and the spirit of architecture / Diane Y.F. Ghirardo.

Main entry:

Ghirardo, Diane, author.

Title & Author:

Aldo Rossi and the spirit of architecture / Diane Y.F. Ghirardo.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

xiii, 262 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255) and index.
A brief biography -- Architecture and the city -- Memory and monument -- Building for culture -- Rossi and the theater -- Cemeteries for Modena and Rozzano -- Aldo Rossi and the spirit of architecture -- Chronology of work by Rossi.

Summary:

This crucial reassessment of Aldo Rossi's (1931-1997) architecture simultaneously examines his writings, drawings, and product design, including the coffeepots and clocks he designed for the Italian firm Alessi. The first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize, Rossi rejected modernism, seeking instead a form of architecture that could transcend the aesthetic legacy of Fascism in postwar Italy. Rossi was a visionary who did not allow contemporary trends to dominate his thinking. His baroque sensibility and poetic approach, found both in his buildings and in important texts like The Architecture of the City, inspired the critic Ada Louise Huxtable to describe him as "a poet who happens to be an architect." Diane Ghirardo explores different categories of structures-monuments, public buildings, cultural institutions, theaters, and cemeteries-drawing significantly on previously unpublished archival materials and always keeping Rossi's own texts in the forefront. By delving into the relationships among Rossi's multifaceted life, his rich body of work, and his own reflections, this book provides a critical new understanding of Rossi's buildings and the place of architecture in postwar Italy

ISBN:

9780300234930 (hbk.)
0300234937 (hbk.)
9780300276732 (pbk.)
0300276737 (pbk.)

Subject:

Rossi, Aldo, 1931-1997 Criticism and interpretation.
Rossi, Aldo, 1931-1997 Philosophy.
Rossi, Aldo, (1931-1997) Criticism and interpretation.
Rossi, Aldo, (1931-1997) Philosophy.
Rossi, Aldo, 1931-1997
Rossi, Aldo, 1931-1997 Critique et interprétation.
Architects Italy Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architects Italy Biography.
Architectes Italie Philosophie.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectes Italie Biographies.
Architects Philosophy. Italy.
Philosophy
Architects
Architecture, Modern
Architects Italy 20th century.
Italy.

Form/genre:

Biography
illustrated books.
works of art.
Literary criticism
Biographies
Illustrated works
Art
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Œuvres d'art.
Critiques littéraires.

Added entries:

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, sponsoring body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305137
Call No.: BIB 250875
Status: Available

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