Main entry:

Lopes, Diogo Seixas.

Title & Author:

Melancholy and architecture : on Aldo Rossi / Diogo Seixas Lopes.

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books, c2015.

Description:

231 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral - Zurich).
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Now this is lost ; Our usual feeling of imperfection -- Melancholy and architecture : Modernity, disquiet, and space -- Aesthetics of the sublime ; Metropolis and spleen ; The lost center ; Downcast architecture -- The case of Aldo Rossi : Postwar years ; A realist education ; Continuity or crisis? ; Architecture as choice ; Architecture as memory ; Architecture as autobiography ; Politics and poetics ; The cemetery of San Cataldo : A sign of culture ; First stage of competition ; Second stage of competition ; Planning and construction ; The city of the dead ; The abandoned house ; The form of the skeleton ; The architecture of shadows ; Memento mori -- Conclusion : An architecture of optimism? ; Culture and crisis -- Final remarks.

Summary:

This book looks at Aldo Rossi's work through the lens of a term often used to describe Rossi's work: melancholy. While the influence of melancholy on literature and the visual arts has been extensively studied, its presence in architecture has been largely overlooked. Exploring Rossi's entire career, the book traces out the oscillation between enthusiasm and disenchantment that marks Rossi's work. Through a close exploration of one of Rossi's landmark works, the Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena, the book shows how this brilliant, innovative architect reinterpreted a typology of the past to help us come to terms with representations of death and the deep sadness that inevitably accompanies it.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9783906027470 (hd. bd.)
3906027473 (hd. bd.)

Subject:

Rossi, Aldo, 1931-1997 Criticism and interpretation.
Rossi, Aldo, 1931-1997.
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Melancholy in art.
Architecture Italy History 20th century.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Mélancolie dans l'art.
Architecture Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Arkitekter.
Italy.

Form/genre:

Theses.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289774
Call No.: BIB 232401
Status: Available