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Regional Administrative Center, project "Trieste e una Donna." , Trieste, Italy, Competition design: Elevation and section

Regional Administrative Center, project "Trieste e una Donna." , Trieste, Italy, Competition design: Elevation and section

Aldo Rossi
Italian, 1931–1997
Gianni Braghieri
Italian, born 1945
M. Bosshard
Italian
1974
A conceptual proposal for a regional administrative center by Aldo Rossi, drawn in rubbed ink and pastel on whiteprint, that arranges repeating gabled volumes to give an office complex the clarity and presence of a civic monument.
The image is striking for its rhythmic trio of pitched roofs and the contrast between the lower elevation’s strict grid of windows and the upper longitudinal section’s exposed interior galleries, all rendered in precise ink lines softened by dusky pastel washes.
The drawing embodies Rossi’s neo‑rationalist use of archetypal forms and collective memory, a late‑20th‑century move to recover monumentality and typology in modern civic architecture.
Medium
Rubbed ink and pastel on whiteprint
Dimensions
28 1/2 x 36" (72.4 x 91.4 cm)
Classification
Credit
Philip Johnson Fund
Accession
28.1980
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