Due progetti di Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi had two main ways to relate to architecture: one was constructed through the process of knowledge and the other one through the process of imagination. Those two ways are captured and synthesized in a couple of definitely antithetical projects: San Cataldo cemetery in Modena and Teatro del Mondo in Venice. San Cataldo Cemetery is an analog city for the dead, displaying the process deducted from the observation of the architecture of the city, that is where all his interests and feelings are condensed. The theatre in Venice, on the opposite, is the objectification in image of the idea of city, an architectural object capable of retaining in its inside the iconography and the spirit of the city of Venice.