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

Aldo Rossi designed and built the floating "Teatro del Mondo" – a temporary theatre on a pontoon that drew on the Venetian tradition of floating structures and at the same time represented a radical architectural statement.

After a brief appearance in the lagoon and the subsequent journey across the Adriatic to Dubrovnik, it was dismantled. Nevertheless, the ephemeral, stage-like building, like hardly any other project, left an iconic mark on Italian architecture of the second half of the 20th century.

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

I am offering an original scale model of the theatre. 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. The two worked together on an equal footing, 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 format approx. 30 x 21.5 cm

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

The folder is in super condition, has only stood on the bookshelf, no creases or tears, charmingly, very slightly, yellowed on the sides/edges, the folder is subject to margin scheme taxation according to § 25a German VAT Act