日本 JAPAN
建築 ARCHITECT
Aldo Rossi
(1931 - 1997)
quotes about Aldo Rossi
"Twelve years later I made a visit to an Aldo Rossi building in Fukuoka, in the deep south of Japan. It looks like a caricature. Its facades, made of red Persian travertine, are hermetically
closed; the roof is defined by an overblown copper roofline. It looks a little bit cynical. It looks deliciously fascist. It is a hotel, and some people even say it is a love hotel.
Rossi did not do the interior. To build it, he dumped his ideological baggage. But it has a weird fascination. It is horribly convincing, and in a way, horribly beautiful.
You ask yourself, did Rossi become more Rossi at the moment of abandoning all his pretensions? I think this is one of the issues that the whole question of globalization raises. When we operate
in our own context, are we not by definition incredibly inhibited or incredibly camouflaged as members of this context? Does being part of a specific culture impose a systematic dishonesty upon
us, because we are part of a culture and not free? Maybe one of the exhilarating possibilities of a leap to somewhere else, where we no longer have to posture to become members in good standing
of our communities, is this uncamouflaged freedom.
What is amazing about Rossi's hotel is that it is Japanese. It dominates its surroundings like a samurai castle. What is also amazing is that the Rossi poetry has been
realized to perfection in his absence. Rossi never worked on the building beyond drawing an initial sketch, and he never visited the site except to go to the opening, yet it has a sense of Rossi
that no building of his in Europe has. That is a fairly amazing state of affairs. I would say it is a building that no Japanese could ever have imagined, but that Rossi could never have
built." (Rem Koolhaas)
project list
| 1998 | MOJIKO HOTEL, Kitakyushu city, Fukuoka |
| 1991 |
AMBIENTE SHOWROOM, Minato ward, Tokyo
ASABA DESIGN STUDIO, Minato ward, Tokyo |
| address: | 9-11 Minato-cho, Moji ward, Kitakyushu city, Fukuoka |
| Japanese: | 福岡県北九州市門司区港町９丁目１１ |
| site area: | 5,540.59 m² |
| building area: | 3,942.37 m² |
| total floor area: | 17,689.72 m² |
| storeys: | 9 above ground, 1 roof |
| structure: | RC, SRC |
| sources: |
[Shotenkenchiku] 1998/4 pages 86-94 |
| address: | 4-11-1 Minami-Aoyama, Minato ward, Tokyo |
| maps: | [Yahoo] |
| total floor area: | 743 m² |
| general contractor: | Obayashi |
| sources: |
[Architectural Map of Tokyo] page 23 [Tajima Noriyuki: Tokio] pages 132-134 |
| address: | 3-9-2 Minami-Aoyama, Minato ward, Tokyo |
| maps: | [Yahoo] |
| total floor area: | 238 m² |
| sources: | [Architectural Map of Tokyo] page 22 |
