Aldo Rossi
The Architecture of the City.
The MIT Press, 1985. Oppositions Books. Second printing. Translation by Diane Ghirado and Joan Ockman of "L'architettura della citta" (Marsilio, 1966), revised for the American edition by Aldo Rossi and Peter Eisenmann, with an introduction by the latter. 0262680432 201 pages.
Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 10", shows moderate wear, with sunning visible on spine, a few smudges to covers and minor creasing to fore edge of front cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. "The Architecture of the City" is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students."