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Meet urban revitalization experts Morris Adjmi Architects: Your Next Employer?

2022-08-01T11:40:00-04:00

Following last week’s visit to New York-based ODA Architecture, this week’s edition of our Meet Your Next Employer series remains partly in NYC where we meet Morris Adjmi Architects (MA).

Established in New York City in 1997 by Morris Adjmi following his 13-year-long collaboration with Aldo Rossi, MA has since expanded from its NYC base to open a second office in New Orleans.

The firm describes itself as a “leader in the revitalization of post-industrial neighborhoods and historic districts,” exemplified by a broad portfolio spanning a renovated brick warehouse in Tribeca to a contemporary glass tower built on an existing art deco building along the High Line.

The firm now seeks to expand by advertising for several roles in NYC and New Orleans on the Archinect Job board. For candidates interested in applying for a role, or anybody interested in learning more about life as an architect, we spoke with the team at MA for a behind-the-scenes look at their studio.

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Major Aldo Rossi retrospective to open at MAXXI

2020-11-30T14:25:00-05:00

The work of architect and designer Aldo Rossi, the first Italian winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1990, will be the star of the new major exhibition Aldo Rossi. The architect and the cities opening on March 10 at MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome.

The retrospective features a selection of more than 800 drawings, sketches, models, letters, notes, photographs, and documents produced during Rossi's career that was cut short when he died following a car accident in 1997 at the age of 66.

Aldo Rossi: Architettura con santo. Image courtesy of MAXXI.

"Together with other architects of his generation, Rossi was an interpreter of the fundamental necessity of cultural reconstruction, taking place during the thrust of post-war responsibilities and owing to his extraordinary ability to 'gather' and attract the best of the international culture of his time," explains the museum's event description.

"Taking place more than 20 years after his death and since the last major mo...

Approaching a multilayered death at Aldo Rossi’s cemetery

2015-09-17T13:37:00-04:00

Aldo Rossi’s addition to the San Cataldo Cemetery is a paragon of postmodern architecture, seeing the cemetery up close exposes some of the style’s major shortcomings. [...] all you’ve got left is a half-empty, unfinished cemetery with assorted maintenance equipment left lying around. Perhaps you can keep drawing meaning from this decay. But lord knows it’s difficult to sustain a deep engagement with life and death after you’ve tripped over a garden hose.

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