ABSTRACT
The Tendenza towards a neo-Rationalism emerged in the pages of Casabella, the glossy Italian magazine, during the 1950s and 60s. Its Editor, Ernesto Rogers, had gathered together a group of young architectural theorists including Vittorio Gregotti, Mario Zenuso and, most particularly, Aldo Rossi. They began to explore the nature of architecture itself and, of course, to develop their own philosophies. Rossi forms a personal link with the next most important bastion of the Tendenza, the Institute of the History at the School of Architecture in Venice of which Manfredo Tafuri became Chairman in 1968. His colleagues included Carlo Aymonimo with whom Rossi was to collaborate.
