Aldo Rossi. Drawings and Projects

Aldo Rossi (Milan 1931 – 1997) was one of the leading architects of the second half of the 20th century. From the late fifties until his sudden passing, he designed and built buildings all over the world. He designed furniture and objects that are still produced today, realized theatrical stages and costumes, conceived urban plans, wrote books and articles on the theory and history of architecture. He taught at universities in Italy and around the world, such as Politecnico in Milan, ETH in Zurich, Iuav in Venice, as well as Yale and Harvard in the USA, where he educated several generations of architecture students. He created thousands of studies, drawings, and paintings, which are now exhibited in world-class museums such as MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, CCA in Montreal, Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, and MAXXI in Rome.
From the realization of his first project in 1960 to receiving the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1990 and beyond, Rossi created an intellectual and poetic universe where design alternates with drawing, written word, and production, thus contributing to an extraordinarily rich body of work that still serves as a foundation for schools and professionals in architecture, as well as for audiences to whom visual art is directed.
The exhibition Aldo Rossi. Drawings and Projects, created by the Fondazione Aldo Rossi in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava, offers more than seventy original works as a cross-section of Rossi's work from the sixties to the second half of the nineties. These exceptional fragments from the life and work of Aldo Rossi will be presented for the first time to visitors at the Slovak National Museum in Bratislava as part of the 14th edition of the Italian festival in Slovakia, Dolce Vitaj.