Melancholy and Architecture: On Aldo Rossi

by Diogo Seixas Lopes

Italian architect Aldo Rossi (1931-97) is a crucial figure in twentieth-century architecture, his work highly influential in both theory and practice. Working in Italy and throughout Europe after World War II, he disputed the then-dominant credos of the modernists--and even went so far as to question the very status of his profession. Discarding utopian pretenses, his work claimed the autonomy of architecture with formal restraint.

In Melancholy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3906027473
• ISBN13: 9783906027470
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"