A new retrospective of postmodernist architect Aldo Rossi's work has recently opened at Rome's MAXXI museum. Its curator Alberto Ferlenga picks ten designs that demonstrate the scope of Rossi's work and how it is still relevant today.
Named Aldo Rossi: The Architect and the Cities, the exhibition presents a wide range of work by the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Italian architect who is known for his work on architectural theory, as well as drawing and product design.
Exhibition features hundreds of photos
It showcases over 800 drawings, photographs, documents and models by the postmodernist architect.
"Aldo Rossi was the Italian architect who, more than others, set himself a theme: that of the reconstruction of an architectural culture suitable for an epochal task such as that, in Italy, in the 1950s, of the material reconstruction of the country after the war," Ferlenga told Dezeen. "In a moment of transition in which all the previous parameters were changing, he understood that the culture available to Italian architects was not enough and had to be renewed."

Rossi's work had an effect that went beyond national borders, Ferlenga argues and is still relevant today.
"Now, are we not facing a moment of epochal transition like that of the postwar period"" he said.
"Aren't environmental issues new parameters from which to adapt the culture of architects today" And don't cities, which have grown out of all proportion but n...