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"A document of architectural imagination rather than a merely autobiographical or abstractly theoretical text.... Rossi allows his thoughts to roam freely from childhood memories to philosophical observations about architecture tout court.... His own projects attempt, and his writings explain, the creation of a magic triangle whose sides are symbolic of life, death, and illusion." Kurt Forster,architectural historian
A Scientific Autobiography
by Aldo Rossi, Lawrence VenutiView All Available Formats & Editions
Available again, a lyrical memoir by one of the major figures of postmodernist architecture; with drawings of architectural projects prepared especially for the book.See more details below
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Available again, a lyrical memoir by one of the major figures of postmodernist architecture; with drawings of architectural projects prepared especially for the book.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262514385
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Publication date:
- 03/31/2010
- Series:
- Oppositions Books
- Pages:
- 128
- Sales rank:
- 1,251,764
- Product dimensions:
- 8.40(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.30(d)
- Age Range:
- 18 Years
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As nostalgia has swept the architectural community in recent years, one of the most Proustian design sensibilities to emerge has been that of Italian architect Aldo Rossi. The enfant terrible of Italy's 1960s Tendenza group, which fulminated against the modern movement, Rossi published influential polemics and kept an equally eloquent personal record in the form of notebooks, which MIT has published as the handsome A Scientific Autobiography...His own reminiscences convents and castles, the emotional pull of holy statuary, Melville's dramatics, an adolescent's fear of death, a young artist's ways with life fill his lyrical, erudite notebooks. Kurt Forster
A document of architectural imagination rather than a merely autobiographical or abstractly theoretical text...Rossi allows his thoughts to roam freely from childhood memories to philosophical observations about architecture tout court...His own projects attempt, and his writings explain, the creation of a magic triangle whose sides are symbolic of life, death, and illusion.Customer Reviews
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