Teatro del Mondo, Elba Cabanas

Some of Italian architect Aldo Rossi’s most moving projects existed only as temporary buildings, including beach cabins for the island of Elba and his floating Teatro del Mondo (Theater of the World), designed for the 1979 Venice Architecture Biennale. These projects appear in this fantasy landscape: the row of peaked roofs represent the former, and the building with an octagonal tower is the latter. Also included in this sheet is his Gallaratese housing block in Milan. The drawing brings together depictions of Rossi projects as part of a mythical landscape that also recalls the forms and structure of historical cities, aligning the architect’s work with the many revivals of the postmodern era.