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Melancholy and Architecture - On Aldo Rossi

By (author) Diogo Seixas Lopes
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Park Books, Zurich, Switzerland
Published: 12th Oct 2020
Dimensions: w 161mm h 244mm d 28mm
Weight: 575g
ISBN-10: 3906027473
ISBN-13: 9783906027470
Barcode No: 9783906027470
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Aldo Rossi (1931-97) is a key figure in 20th-century architecture. Discarding utopian pretences, his work claimed the autonomy of architecture with formal restraint, and remains highly influential both in theory and practice until the present day. In this new book, Diogo Seixas Lopes looks at Rossi's work through the lens of a term often used to describe the great architect's work: melancholy. While the influence of melancholy on literature and visual arts has been debated extensively, its presence in architecture has been largely overlooked. By exploring Rossi's entire career, Lopes traces out the oscillation between enthusiasm and disenchantment that marks Rossi's oeuvre. Through a close exploration of one of his landmark works, the Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena, Lopes shows how this brilliant, innovative architect reinterpreted a typology of the past to help us come to terms with representations of death and the melancholy that inevitably accompanies it. Beautifully illustrated and drawing on rich archival sources, Melancholy and Architecture both illuminates the work of the 20th century's most interesting architects and offers a new perspective on the long cultural history of melancholy.

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"Taking the limitations of architecture into account, Riegler Riewe's theoretical position and the unadorned quality of its work comes as a breath of fresh air amid the image-driven spectacular architecture at the beginning of the 21st century."--Thomas Wensing "Blueprint " "Modern architecture is usually associated with utopian idealism but Italian Postmodernist Aldo Rossi had a more sombre temperament. Drawing on the dreamlike paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, he imbued his designs with a sense of immense sadness and the weight of history. In this study of Rossi, Seixas Lopes introduces us to the dark side of architecture, where form doesn't always follow function."-- (06/29/2015)