Aldo Rossi’s work and legacy celebrated
Aldo Rossi’s work and legacy celebrated
While Molteni & C celebrates the furniture design of Aldo Rossi, MAXXI Museum pays tribute to the postmodernist architect through a series of sketches, photographs and models, on show in Rome until 17 October 2021
Conceived in 1991 by Aldo Rossi and Luca Meda, the ‘Piroscafo’ bookcase was inspired by a building Rossi had designed in Perugia. Its name means ‘steamship’ in Italian, and when the units are lined up together, they give the appearance of a steamship
‘Imagination and fantasy can only blossom from the knowledge of the real,’ said the architect Aldo Rossi. The epigram appears in the Blue Notebooks, a personal and professional journal Rossi started in the late 1960s. It was a discipline he maintained over three decades, filling 47 volumes, which continue to offer an insight into his unique take on the poetry and practicalities of architecture and a wider creative life.
Ten key Aldo Rossi projects that showcase the scope of his work
A new retrospective of postmodernist architect Aldo Rossi s work has recently opened at Rome s MAXXI museum. Its curator Alberto Ferlenga picks ten designs that demonstrate the scope of Rossi s work and how it is still relevant today.
Named Aldo Rossi: The Architect and the Cities, the exhibition presents a wide range of work by the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Italian architect who is known for his work on architectural theory, as well as drawing and product design.
Exhibition features hundreds of photos
It showcases over 800 drawings, photographs, documents and models by the postmodernist architect.
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It all began at Karl Lagerfeld’s Left Bank apartment in 1997. The award-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando was invited to dinner, and when he arrived, he met, there in the 18th-century entrance hall, the French financier François Pinault, a noted collector of contemporary art. “Was he aware that I would be there?” Ando muses now. “I am not sure. I sensed that Mr. Pinault might have asked Mr. Lagerfeld to introduce me to him, to understand what kind of person and architect I was.”
The Pritzker Prize–winner transformed the historic Bourse de Commerce into a sublime Paris home for the Pinault Collection.