...nded and the orld of the imagination began. More recently, he completed a major building for Genoa, the Carlo Felice Theatre hich is the National Opera House.In Canada, the first Rossi project in the estern Hemisphere as completed in 1987 hen the Toronto Lighthouse Theatre as built on the banks of Lake Ontario.In his book, A Scientific Autobiography, he describes an auto accident that occurred in 1971 as being a turning point in his life, ending his youth, and inspiring a project for the cemetery at Modena. It as hile he as recuperating in a hospital that he began thinking of cities as great encampments of the living, and cemeteries as cities of the dead. Rossis design for the cemetery at San Cataldo on first prize in a competition in 1971, and is being built in stages.At almost the same time period, Rossis first housing complex as being built on the outskirts of Milan. Called Gallaratese, the structure is actually to buildings separated by a narro gap. Of Gallaratese, Rossi has said, I believe it to be significant, above all, because of the simplicity of its construction, hich allos it to be repeated. He has since built a number of solutions to housing, from individual homes to apartment buildings and hotels.The Pocono Pines Houses in Pocono, Pennsylvania represent one of his first completed buildings in the United States. In Galveston, Texas,a monumental arch for the city has been completed. In Coral Gables, Florida, the University of Miami has commissioned Rossi to design the ne School of Architecture.Other housing projects include an apartment building in the Berlin-Tiergarten district of est Germany, and another called Sudliche Friedrichstadt. There have been numerous residence designs in Italy. His Il Palazzo Hotel and Restaurant Complex in Fukuoka, Japan is still another extension of his solutions for living quarters, completed in 1989.Five important projects ere completed in 1988 the Palazzo Regionale in Perugia a civic center a funerary chapel in Giussano built for the Molteni family a ton hall for Borgoricco the Centro Torri Shopping Center in Parma and in Turin, Casa Aurora, an office headquarters for GFT, parent company to the designer labels of Valentino, Emanuel Ungaro and Giorgio Armani.These accomplishments in turn, gave clients in other countries the courage to call for Rossis services as ell, i.e., Canary harf Offices in London, an art gallery in Japan, a large residential quarters in The Hague, Netherlands, a restoration and addition to a monastery in Seville, Spain, and in his on country, a sports arena and many other projects. Also in 1989, Rossi on the competition in Germany over some 200 other entrants for the design of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in est Berlin.hen Rossi as introduced at Harvard to deliver the alter Gropius Lecture, the chairman of the architecture department, Jose Rafael Moneo said, hen future historians look for an explanation as to hy the destructive tendencies that threatened our cities changed, Rossis name ill appear as one of those ho helped to establish a iser and more respectful attitude.In the essay titled The End of the Century Finds a Poet, and quoted earlier, Vincent Scully calls Rossi the incomparable Italian builder, the shaper of the most beautiful, almost entirely man-made country in the orld.The Pritzker Architecture Prize jury has once again recognized qualities in an architect that may have seemed, if not hidden, certainly not broadly proclaimed. HYPERLINK http.pritzkerprize.comrossi.htm tl Contents of this PageContents of this Page Return to the top of this page.Citation from the Pritzker JuryArchitecture is a profession in hich talent matures sloly. It is a discipline hich requires many years of thoughtful observation, of testing principles, of sensing space, and experiencing the many moods necessary for seasoning and nurturing. underkind in architecture are extremely rare.The array of abilities that permit an architect to ork ith a sure hand and achieve the intended result allos for no shortcuts. An architect ho ould be the best he can be must serve a lifetime apprenticeship, ell beyond that required for official licensing. He must kno human behavior, understand structures and materials, and ho to shape forms and spaces to serve intended purposes in inspired and original ays.The Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury has found these qualities and more in Aldo Rossi, and have selected him as the 1990 Laureate.Knon for many years as a theorist, philosopher, artist and teacher, Rossi has spent time developing his architectural voice, and pen. ords as ell as draings and buildings have distinguished him as one of the great architects. As a master draftsman, steeped in the tradition of Italian art and architecture, Rossis sketches and renderings of buildings have often achieved international recognition long before being built.His book, Architecture and the City, published in 1966, is a text of significance in the study of urban design and thinking. Out of this theoretical base came designs that seem alays to be a part of the city fabric, rather than an intrusion.Each of Rossis designs, hether an office complex, hotel, cemetery, a floating theatre, an exquisite coffee pot, or even toys, captures the essence of purpose.Rossi has been able to follo the lessons of classical architecture ithout copying them his buildings carry echoes from the past in their use of forms that have a universal, haunting quality. His ork is at once bold and ordinary, original ithout being novel, refreshingly simple in appearance but extremely complex in content and meaning. In a period of diverse styles and influences, Aldo Rossi has escheed the fashionable and popular to create an architecture singularly his on.On a solid foundation of theory, he uses his talents and ability to solve design problems in memorable and imaginative ays. His influence is extensive and expands ith every ne commission. ith this honor, Aldo Rossi joins a dozen architects already singled out for their contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. HYPERLINK http.pritzkerprize.comrossi.htm tl Contents of this PageContents of this Page Return to the top of this page.Aldo Rossis Acceptance SpeechToday is a very special day, and it is ith a great pride and joy that I accept this prize. Hoever, in some ay it is also difficult to receive this prize. In a ay, I feel like a school boy ho is about to take an exam. A moment to recollect. A moment of guilt. A moment of truth.I also take this opportunity to meditate on my architecture. I ill not bore you ith a minute anylysis just a fe ords.I have alays felt that my architecture is timeless. I hope that this prize bears itness to that thought. I have alays stayed aay from the gossip that surrounds groups, school, magazines, nespapers, architects, and so on. But above all, I have alays rejected styles and fashions.I am not obsessed ith architecture, but I have alays tried to make archite...
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