The National Museum of Scotland competition scheme (which as official signatory and 1 of 8 selected candidates I ultimately withdrew, in view of Hans Hollein’s unacceptably disparaging remarks during the first phase jury interview) involved several months single-handed development of Rossi’s thumbnail sketch, at my own expense, in Studio di Architettura’s principal Milan premises, v. Santa Maria alla Porta 9.
Despite having declined, under pressure from his Milan colleagues, to sign the project with me (in view of a menacing proscription by the Italian Ordine degli Architetti, forbidding their registrees to participate) the scheme nevertheless figured in Morris Adjmi’s monograph on Aldo Rossi published soon afterwards. Naturally I supplied the graphic material, but retain copyright.
Were to follow that same year further collaborations with SdA in Milan and New York, either as out-sourced perspective draughtsman, associate architect or both. Hollein later apologized to Rossi, when we crossed paths in Gensler Associates’ Rockefeller Center offices, less than half a year later.
Polaroid taken by Erin Shilliday In New York, 1991
Related or parent pages :
Aldo Rossi (employer)
Architectural Studies (signatory)
Architectural Studies (co-signatory)
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