Aldo Rossi

Author: (Italian) Gianni Braghieri
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Features: Aldo Rossi's architecture has long been renowned for its rigorous and minimalist conception, which is evident not only in its composition. If we analyze any design from his developmental process—from concept to sketch, architectural drawings, models, and ultimately to the actual construction—we can observe the inherent symmetry, proportions, and volumetric relationships within the buildings. Even in darkness and solitude, for Aldo Rossi, drawing was never the end; the final result lay in the architecture. It reflected a reality, a period of his own life. The relentless redesign of unchanging elements: portals, corridors, cubes, cones, pillars, overlapping and combining them until they form objects in real life. When they fall, at the moment they transform into buildings, they choose not to express but to reveal their trajectories.