Writer: Aldo Rossi
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)
26 May 2020
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)26 May 2020
Two fragments of texts paired with two fragments of process. Writing in the May 1976 issue of Architecture + Urbanism, Rossi reflects on two projects: the Gallaratese Housing Complex, Milan and the Fagnano Olona in the Lombardy region. In both of the drawings placed alongside the architect’ s writing, the forms… Read More
History & Origins
21 August 2015
History & Origins21 August 2015
And these old drawings […] now have their own history, an almost enforced form of composition. And yet I wonder at the fact that they are the origin or germ of these new architectural works, which others could regard as more professional. In actual fact, invention and imagination have deeper… Read More
Aldo & Adolf
13 December 2019
Aldo & Adolf13 December 2019
– Aldo Rossi
And architecture itself? Architecture is still the central theme of Loos’s thought, and among his essays is a piece on the competition sponsored by the Chicago Tribune, a piece, which, like the one on the Michaelerhaus and ‘Ornament and Crime,’ is essential to the understanding of the meaning of architecture. This… Read More
DMC projection (axonometric isometric) presentation civic & municipal record