Aldo Rossi: Drawings and Paintings
Morris Adjmi, Giovanni Bertolotto (Editors)
Princeton Architectural Press, 1993

Paperback | 9 x 12 inches | 224 pages | 203 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1878271501

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Aldo Rossi is admired as much for his artistic ability as for his architectural design skill. His drawings, paintings, and renderings have been exhibited in museums and galleries from New York to Moscow, and formed the basis of a 1991 retrospective at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
This elegant book collects over 200 color reproductions and 200 black and white reproductions of his drawings and paintings together in a companion volume to Aldo Rossi: Architecture 1981-1991. An introduction by the editors explores the themes common to Rossi's architectural and drawn oeuvre, and an essay by critic and art historian Carter Ratcliff situates Rossi's graphic work in the context of contemporary art. REFERRAL LINKS:
 

dDAB COMMENTARY:
Reviewing two books about drawing this week ? one of them with a short essay on an Aldo Rossi drawing ? plus two books about architectural typologies over the last two weeks, led me to pull this book of the famous Italian architect's drawings and paintings off my shelf. If any architect is associated with typology, it's Aldo Rossi, author of The Architecture of the City, the 1966 book that proposed an understanding of the city as a taxonomy of architectural typologies. Rossi would have turned 90 this coming May if...