Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi offers a captivating account of the relationship between human life and material forms. says that he came to “the great questions”, his discovery Ludwig Wittgenstein Georg Trakl through Adolf Loos (Rossi 1982: 46). I will outline some connections Loos, Trakl, might help us grasp way in which Rossi’s assertive attitude concerning architecture gradually leans towards “forgetting architecture”. (The goal is not try justify how they have influenced Rossi; rather aim understand work with those as backdrop; constellation affinities.) The running thread being internal relation object subject, i.e., “construction artist’s own life” (Lombardo 2003: 97). conclude by considering architectural form on page, say, plans, “a graphic variation handwritten manuscript”, drawings, “where line no longer line, but writing” 1981: 6), finally what about architecture, namely, it stands “mute cold,” though still “creak” 44), give rise “new meanings”.