Box set containing 47 blue notebooks by architect Aldo Rossi, with a presentation booklet by architect Francesco Dal Co, published by Electa in 1999. Rare. The notebooks are the autobiographical collection of reflections, ideas, sketches, and projects that accompanied Aldo Rossi's professional life from June 19, 1968, to December 5, 1992. The architect tells of himself and his architecture through small notebooks of notes and reflections that represent a kind of architectural diary: travel notes on the meaning and value of architectural creation, in a dialectical confrontation with the great masters of the past. A story that leaves no room for monotony, engaging the reader with the meanings behind its architecture, aimed at transforming reality through a wise, admirable balance between logical rigor and imagination. Milan/Los Angeles, Electa/The J. Paul Getty Research Institute, 1999; box set with an introductory booklet (pp. 90) and 47 notebooks (pp. 2304) Editorial note: Metal point + box Format: 10.7×17.5 Pages: 2304 Year: 1999 The images show only a part of the drawings contained in the notebooks.