Aldo Rossi 2

ALDO ROSSI Aldo Rossi (May 3, 1931- September 4, 1997), is one of the most influential architects during the period 1972- 1988, has accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in three distinct areas: theory, drawing and architecture. After receiving his architecture degree at the Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University in Milan) in 1959, Aldo Rossi served as a course assistant to prominent architects Ludovico Quaroni and Carla Amoynino. Aldo Rossi became a faculty member in the School of Architecture in Milan in 1965 and at the University of Venice in 1975. In addition to these regular appointments, his growing fame brought him positions as a professor in Zurich, Spain and United States. Aldo Rossi’s career as a theorist began to take shape during the years that he worked with Ernesto Rogers on the leading Italian architecture magazine Casabella Continuita (1955- 1964). In 1966, Aldo Rossi published the book "l 'architettura della città" (The Architecture Of The City), which subsequently was translated into several languages and enjoyed enormous international success. Spurning the then fashionable debates on style, Aldo Rossi instead criticized the lack of understanding of the city in current architectural practice. Aldo Rossi argued that a city must be studied and valued as something constructed over time; of particular interest are urban artifacts that withstand the passage of time. Despite the modern movement polemics against monuments, for example, Aldo Rossi held that the city remembers its past and uses that memory through monuments; that is, monuments give structure to the city.
This understanding of the city and its elements, its monuments, and its permanencies, informed Aldo Rossi’s own designs for public buildings. One of his earliest major public buildings was the addition to the existing cemetery of the city of Modena in northern Italy. Perceiving the cemetery as a repository of social meaning, Aldo Rossi conceived

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