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The Theatre of the Moon
Aldo Rossi (inaugurated in Venice in 1979)
The Teatro del Mondo was inaugurated in Venice, Italy in 1979 and was one of the installations at the 1980 Venice Biennale.
It was, and still is, one of the most evocative projects of Aldo Rossi's work. The Theater was built in a basin of Fusina, a small port in the lagoon, on a barge. It was then towed to Venice and moored at Punta della Dogana, on the Grand Canal, in front of Piazza San Marco.
The building consisted of a load-bearing structure of steel tubes covered with wooden planks. It reached a total height of 25 meters. The main body of the theater consisted of a square-based parallelepiped measuring approximately 9,5 meters on each side and 11 meters high. At its summit, an octagonal drum supported a pitched zinc roof. Inside, the stage was located in the center, with the audience seated at the sides. The galleries on the upper floor were reached via stairs located on the sides of the parallelepiped.
The theater could accommodate up to 400 spectators, 250 of whom were seated. At the end of the Biennale, the Teatro del Mondo crossed the Adriatic to Dubrovnik.
More than an installation it was a real theoretical manifestoRossi drew on the Venetian imagery of towers, lighthouses, port buildings, and ephemeral architecture. These elements were transformed into a simple, almost archetypal construction: a compact volume, a central tower, pure and recognizable forms.
The fact that it was mobile devices It is fundamental. The theater did not have a fixed location, but interacted with the city by constantly changing perspectives. It was as if Venice itself were its stage. In this sense, it becomes a powerful reflection on the relationship between memory, place and architectureThese themes are central to Rossi's thinking.
Dismantled in 1981, the Teatro del Mondo lives on in drawings, photographs, and above all, in the history of architecture. It remains a symbol of a poetic and cultured approach to design, where even the ephemeral can become eternal.
The Theatre of the Moon
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Category Venice Architecture
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