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City Manager Robert W. Healy did not return repeated phone calls last week. But Maus said the group would meet with Deputy City Manager Richard Rossi tomorrow...
...biggest mall in Florida"), the high-minded ("I've been obsessed with creating a new chautauqua") and the intriguingly original ("We want to build workplaces, pilot factories"). He has already rejected schemes by Stern and Gwathmey Siegel. A design competition going on among Helmut Jahn, Charles Moore, Aldo Rossi and the firms Arquitectonica, Morphosis and Kohn Pedersen Fox has so far produced accepted designs by Jahn, Moore and Rossi. Trying to realize this biggest dream has been "a nightmare," Eisner says. He doesn't know exactly what he wants, but he wants it to be amazing, and he wants...
Over the past decade, Rossi has roamed the U.S. several times. He says he relishes "the richness of the countryside and the materials." His first U.S. buildings, finished last year, are two developer-constructed houses in, of all places, the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. The clapboard houses, unmistakably American, prove that Rossi practices what he preaches about deference to local styles. Last December construction began on what could be his most relaxed, and among his finest, work: a village-like tropically colored campus for the University of Miami School of Architecture...
...Rossi has always taken all sorts of risks -- ideological, stylistic, careerist -- yet has never overindulged his own quirks and perversity, the besetting sin of creative risk takers. He avoids easy solutions of either the overdecorative or hyperlogical kind. Instead he seeks to create buildings that are sublime and humane, the riskiest -- and noblest -- challenge...
This year's $100,000 Pritzker Prize goes to Italy's Aldo Rossi, 58, who has inspired a generation of architects with his urban theories as well as his bold, austere buildings...