Winner of the 1990 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Italian architect and theorist Aldo Rossi (1931–1997) gained international renown for his imaginative and starkly beautiful designs. Rossi’s writings, drawings and buildings have distinguished him as one of the great architects of our time. They are unique for their simple forms such as cones, cylinders, prisms, and cubes. His work is at once bold yet ordinary, original without being novel, refreshingly simple in appearance but extremely complex in content and meaning. Rossi has been able to follow the lessons of classical architecture without copying them. In a period of diverse styles and influences, Aldo Rossi has eschewed the fashionable and popular to create an architecture singularly all his own. Sketches, drawings, concepts, watercolors, and collages from the early 1960s through to 1998 help us to understand Aldo Rossi the artist and architect, as well as his mindset and how he elaborated his projects. The volume is complete with a register of the Aldo Rossi Foundation’s works. This is truly a valuable tool for scholars.
- "围绕中心事物间的异常联系吸引我以一种组合体系的复杂性来迈向这从未有过的要素间的松散：扭曲组合了材料本身，并肢解了其静态图像，提升了其基础标准和对比组合。事物的话语——关于那些已被构造或可以被构造的物件、绘画、模型、建筑项目和事件——使得我日趋充实和着迷。这并不是“迈向”一种建筑形式或者一种新建筑的判断（sense）。相反的，那些日常事物伴随着意义积累下固定和僵化。谷仓、马厩、工厂、工坊等等。（我）钟爱的事物揭示了传统的问题。这些事物被置于（我的）清单和记忆之中。"
