Aldo Rossi, (1932-1997 Milan, Italy) was an Italian architect. For the Venice Biennale in 1979 he designed a floating Teatro del Mondo that seated 250 that was towed out to sea. He also designed the National Opera House in Genoa. He won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1990. Ada Louise Huxtable , architectural critic and Pritzker juror, has described Rossi as "a poet who happens to be an architect."

Main works

• San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena, Italy (1971-84) with Gianni Braghieri
• Gallaratese Quarter II in Milano, Italy (1974) with Carlo Aymonino
• Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, the Netherlands (1991)
• Quartier Schützenstrasse in Berlin, Germany (1994-98) Photos
• The corporate headquarters of the ABC television studio in Burbank, California, USA
• Ca' di Cozzi in Verona, Italy, his last project

External link

• Pritzker Prize web page on Rossi.
• Bonnefanten Biography