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.

"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 monographic exhibition in Milan, this important retrospective on Aldo Rossi offers an opportunity to not only gather extraordinary materials, spread across numerous archives and private collections around the world but also to reflect on the specific features characteristic to Italian architecture from the second half of the twentieth century."

The exhibition, curated by Alberto Ferlenga in collaboration with Fondazione Aldo Rossi and Fausto e Vera Rossi, will be on view until October 17.

If you can't wait for the Rossi show to open, consider Architecture, silence and light. Louis Kahn in the Photographs by Roberto Schezen which runs until February 21.

UPDATE February 23, 2021: Due to the pandemic-related, temporary closure of all Italian museums, the show's dates have changed. The article now reflects the latest event dates.