... mely 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 architecture in an honest ay, like all those that honestly practice their profession. Like the stone masons or orkmen ho build the cathedrals, the factories, the big bridges, the big orks of our time. Searching for truth in my profession, I have ended up loving architecture. Maybe it is a simple but strange satisfaction that makes one love his on profession. So let me call it cara architettura, or in English, dear architecture, or ith your permission, darling architecture.I have never believed that any profession could be disjointed from culture, and, for this reason, during my youth I had the privilege of styudying the relationship beteen theory and architecture, and I as happy to find significance in those studies.But today I prefer to design and build, and I am fascinated by the possibi ... Download