Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) graduated from Politecnico di Milano in his native city of Milan in 1959 and immediately began pursuing an intense theoretical and teaching career, working with historic magazines such as Casabella - Continuità (1955 to 1964), Società and Il Contemporaneo and serving as editor-in-chief of Marsilio’s Polis series.  In his youth he added numerous trips abroad to his cultural background (Prague, Moscow, East Berlin). He began his long academic career in the seventies, first as assistant (at the school of urban planning in Arezzo with Ludovico Quaroni; at IUAV in Venice with Carlo Aymonino) and then as a professor at Politecnico di Milano (1965), and later taught at Zurich Polytechnic as well as holding lectures in Japan and the United States.  He worked with Catalan architects in Spain in the sixties, particularly Salvatore Tarragò. In 1966 he ....

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