The Three States of the Architectural Fragment as a Collective Archive of Concepts: Tracing an Alternative Genealogy of Aldo Rossi's Analogous Cities

This article scrutinizes the persistent preoccupation with fragments in the work of Italian architect Aldo Rossi. Two heretofore overlooked volumes of his Quaderni Azzurri (blue notebooks) from the special collections of the Getty Research Institute are deployed as a point of departure in order to u...

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