Work
The Architecture of the City
Explore in the Atlas →Rossi's critique of functionalist urbanism, proposing the city as a repository of collective memory built from enduring typologies and 'urban artefacts'.
Memory Settlement Collectivity Type
Details
- Type
- Text
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- ReasonObservation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- articulates Collective Memory
- articulates Urban Artefact and Type
Referenced by
- Aldo Rossi authored
Sources
- Aldo Rossi. L'architettura della città. Marsilio, Padua, 1966.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "The Architecture of the City." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/the-architecture-of-the-city/. Accessed July 17, 2026.