In 1979, Paolo Portoghesi was the director of the Venice Biennale. He commissioned Aldo Rossi to create a "manifest" work for the urban space.

Aldo Rossi designed and built the floating"Teatro del Mondo" - a temporary theater on a pontoon that drew on the Venetian tradition of floating buildings and at the same time made a radical architectural statement.

After a brief appearance in the lagoon and the subsequent journey across the Adriatic to Dubrovnik, it was dismantled again. Nevertheless, the ephemeral, backdrop-like building has had an iconic impact on Italian architecture in the second half of the 20th century like almost no other project.

Oh, how I would have loved to have seen that.

I offer an original scale model of the theater. Published in 1984 by the renowned Academia Boekhandel Delft, Holland. The author is the architect and professor Umberto Barbieri, with whom Aldo Rossi founded a joint office in The Hague in 1987. Dhe two worked together as equals, which established them as an important duo in the world of architecture

Aldo Rossi Teatro del Mondo
Scale model 1:100
Academia Boekhandel Delft 1984
Texts in English and Dutch
ISBN 9071137015 Folder size approx. 30 x 21.5 cm

Contents:
6 sheets A4, cardboard, printed in 7 colors
Exploded view A4
Assembly instructions
a small booklet, A5, with 16 illustrated pages about the theater & Aldo Rossi
the flagpole made of steel wire (very important!!!)

the folder is in a good condition according to the age, cover charmingly yellowed, complete, no creases or tears, the folder is subject to differential taxation according to § 25a UstG