Aldo Rossi Quotes

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

Aldo Rossi

• City
• Memory

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

Aldo Rossi

• Life
• Architecture
• Techniques

“It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface, of a light absorbent material, absolutely bare of details, and of which the decoration is formed by a composition of shadows, drawn by shadows still darker.”

Aldo Rossi

• Dark
• Details
• Monument

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

Aldo Rossi

• City
• Architecture
• Condition