// italian masters
CARLO SCARPA:
The Brion Tomb (1969?78) is a private tomb ? "a city of the dead" ? for
the Brion family near Treviso, Italy. For the Brion Tomb, Scarpa
established a new landscape within an old one, constructed a complex
narrative out of startlingly fresh free-standing forms, and explored
radical design and construction techniques to effect them.
http://www.arcspace.com/tours/Zugmann/gallery/index.htm
ALDO ROSSI:
Rossi defines architecture as designs (forms) which have persisted over
time to become types. Those types constitute the history of the city or
its memory, and the culture of the present. Functions vary over time but
form remains. It is the desire for permanence that is so characteristic of
his work. The history of the city is composed by those designs which
persist over time to become types. This permanence of memory (meaning) in
the city is based on two principles:
memory - Urban facts which are permanent; those which withstand the
passage of time and eventually become monuments.
http://www.uky.edu/Architecture/wakeup/issue4/aaron/
http://www.ionone.com/arrossi1a.htm
monuments - These give meaning to the life of the city through memory.