The Urban Fact: A Reference book on Aldo Rossi Vito Acconci globally minded

globally minded

In close dialogue with images and historical documents

Sam de Groot

but operates in between fiction and nonfiction to investigate the very concept of the contemporary

The Urban Fact: A Reference book on Aldo Rossi Vito Acconci globally mindedgaThe great Italian architect, designer, theorist and printmaker Aldo Rossi (1931 97) galvanized the postmodernist architectural movement in the middle of the 20th century with his unique synthesis of influences such as Adolf Loos, Giorgio de Chirico and Soviet architecture. From his publication Architecture of the City (1966) to his 1976 exhibition Analogous City, Rossi spent a decade developing a theory of urban design that focused on the