TY - JOUR
TI - Residential architecture of Aldo Rossi – between rationality and poetic
AU - Mielnik, Anna
TI - Residential architecture of Aldo Rossi – between rationality and poetic
AB - 
	This article is part of the author’s research on rationalist tendencies in contemporary residential architecture. The subject of this analysis are the urban-architectural theories of Aldo Rossi and their influence on the design of various multi-family housing architecture (building quarter, corner building, urban villa, block) in Berlin and Milan.
	Aldo Rossi, a theoretician and creator, researched the history and collective memory to draw information - about the city and its architecture -, and then applied this methodology to his design. He tried to define universal, invariable forms and architectural elements. In his typological research, he was looking for a combination of: an abstract language of geometry with a function (also explored historically), analysis of the area, local structures, materials, and unique features of the environment. The author is interested in why Rossi’s works, characterized by unusual formalism and a unwillingness to compromise, during their formation and now, still constitute important examples, or even icons, of urban housing architecture.
	The text is also intended to show that Aldo Rossi’s “theoretical and architectural heritage” can still be a source of inspiration in solving the problems facing contemporary architecture. Even today, creators reaching for the forms, structures, types and materials established in the past, may continue to search for universal values in architecture, taking into account contemporary conditions and needs. The objective is to draw attention to the issue of rationalism as a general attitude in shaping urban housing architecture, which may constitute a compromise between the past and the present, tradition and novelty.
VL - 2019
IS - 26/2019
PY - 2019
SN - 1731-2442
C1 - 2543-8700
SP - 61
EP - 70
DO - 10.4467/25438700SM.19.009.10797
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/residential-architecture-of-aldo-rossi-between-rationality-and-poetic
KW - Aldo Rossi
KW - residential architecture
KW - rationalism in architecture