Aldo Loris Rossi

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Rione Alto Residence, Via San Giacomo dei Capri, Naples

Aldo Loris Rossi (born May 11, 1933 in Bisaccia , Italy ; † June 28, 2018 in Naples , Italy) was an Italian architect , avant-garde architectural theorist and university professor.

life and work

Aldo Loris Rossi studied in Naples, but is essentially a self-taught architect . He was engaged in photography and studying the masters of modernism. He later became a professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Naples Federico II . Rossi was a student and friend of Bruno Zevi and Luigi Piccinato , the architects and town planners who represented organic architecture in Italy and the association APAO - Association for Organic Architecture (founded in 1945). He was also a student of Giovanni Michelucci .

During his time as a student between 1950 and 1960, he had many contacts with artists and writers and was involved in the formation of a new political and intellectual opposition and maintained relationships with the cultural groups of the avant-garde of the time.

From 1960 onwards, Aldo Loris Rossi designed the plan for the utopian vertical city together with the Italian architect Donatella Mazzoleni . This city model was based on the idea that the city will disappear completely from the surface and concentrate only on a few, huge high-rise buildings, which themselves form cities with all functions such as production, distribution, traffic, consumption and the corresponding structures. In 1972, together with Mazzoleni, he took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Department of Parallel Imagery: Utopia and Planning with a model and drawings for the Vertical City . Around 1985 he designed surrealistic office and administration buildings in Perugia .

Aldo Loris Rossi represented an anti-classical architecture whose reference points were: the complexity, the disorder, asymmetry , irregular geometry and informal irrationality that go hand in hand with the absolute freedom of the artist and the formal experimental diversity. Aldo Loris Rossi's architectural language combined organic morphology, mega-structural and utopian designs with expressionist , futuristic and constructivist elements. In addition to his designs, he carried out research on social space and human behavior.

Buildings and projects (selection)

  • 1960: Progetto di Unità Urbana a sviluppo verticale - planning of the utopian vertical city
  • 1960: Edificio Residenziale, Via San Giacomo dei Capri, Naples
  • 1966: House in St. Giacomo dei Capri, Naples
  • 1966: Complesso Parrocchiale (Parish) di S. James Capri in Naples
  • 1966: Complesso Parrocchiale (Parish) of St. Maria della Libera in Portici, Naples
  • 1968–1980: House of the dockworkers at the port of Naples
  • 1986–1991: Residential and commercial building in La Villette , Paris
  • 1975: l'ipotesi del Materiale Abitabile Città-Struttura - theory and planning of the “living” matter urban structure , a model of vertical settlement development for 250,000 inhabitants
  • 1985–1989: Complesso residenziale, Piazza Grande, Naples
  • 1981–1989: Piano urbanistico ed edifici a Bisaccia, Avellino
  • 2006: Stazione di Moregine della Ferrovia Circumvesuviana in Castellammare di Stabia

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972.
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X .

Web links

Commons : Aldo Loris Rossi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ exıbart: Addio ad Aldo Loris Rossi, maestro del Razionalismo socialmente impegnato on exibart.com , accessed on July 2, 2018 (Italian)
  2. ^ Adriano Sofri: Addio ad Aldo Loris Rossi, voce decisiva dei radicali , Il Foglio, accessed on July 2, 2018 (Italian)
  3. ↑ Gerhard Ullmann: The Piazza, a southern attitude towards life. Places in Italy: highlights of architecture and encounters. In: the scales. Journal of Grünenthal GmbH 36, 1997, number 1, pp. 30-37, here: p. 34 f.
personal data
SURNAME Rossi, Aldo Loris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect, avant-garde architectural theorist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Bisaccia , Italy
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2018
Place of death Naples , Italy