The Architecture of the City” First published as L’architettura della citta in 1966 Proposes a return to reason & logic, history & memory, & the city the city must be valued as a construction over time

2 -Themes Critique of Functionalism and Modernism’s utilitarian basis Autonomous monuments and the permanence of form A city of fragments, a city of monuments The memory structure of the city

3 - Palazzo della Ragione Padua, Italy A City Hall from the 1200’s, converted into a marketplace Form is permanent and complex Form can be adapted to new uses Not “form follows function” 4 -Teatro del Mondo Venice Biennale 1979-80 “ Theatre of the World” Simple, unornamented forms Recalls floating theatres characteristic of Venice in the 18th century Based on Rossi’s childhood memory of a puppet theatre