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Aldo Rossi | architecture | Cemetery of San Cataldo (1971) Modena, Italy

From his treatise The Architecture of the City (1966) and his seminal Cemetery of San Cataldo (1971) to his popular Hotel II Palazzo in Fukuoka (1987) and a public housing project in Berlin (1992-98), ...
Aldo Rossi | architecture | The Sketchbooks 1990-97

Introduction by Peter Eisenman
The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Moden Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.
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