Cemetery of Segrate (project)

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Cemetery of Segrate (project) is an early conceptual design by Italian architect Aldo Rossi that explores his emerging ideas on typology, memory, and the rational organization of urban space through a monumental cemetery layout.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural project
cemetery design
conceptual design
architect Aldo Rossi NERFINISHED
country Italy
creatorNationality Italian
designApproach rationalist
typological
designType monumental cemetery layout
discipline architecture
documentedIn architectural history literature on Aldo Rossi
exploresConcept collective memory
formal abstraction
monumentality
rational organization of urban space
typology
urban memory
hasDesignFeature geometrically ordered layout
monumental composition
strong axial organization
hasDesignIntent to express collective memory through form
to rationalize the cemetery as an urban artifact
hasFunction cemetery
urban monument
hasTheme memory and death
permanence in the city
relationship between architecture and memory
influenced architectural discourse on typology
later works by Aldo Rossi
influencedBy European modernism NERFINISHED
Italian Rationalism NERFINISHED
languageOfTheoreticalContext Italian
location Segrate NERFINISHED
medium architectural drawings
conceptual studies
period 20th century
phaseInArchitectCareer early work
relatedTo Aldo Rossi’s ideas on urban artifacts
Aldo Rossi’s theory of the city
Aldo Rossi’s theory of typology
relatedWork San Cataldo Cemetery (Modena) NERFINISHED
The Architecture of the City (book by Aldo Rossi) NERFINISHED
status unbuilt project
subDiscipline funerary architecture
urban design

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Aldo Rossi notableWork Cemetery of Segrate (project)