ABSTRACT
One intellectual who seems to have been struck by the new peristyle idea made manifest in Quaroni's urban design was the architect Aldo Rossi, who was to subject the idea to some interesting developments. Klein's Architecture of the Air proposes a fascinating alternative to the architecture of urban design, however, at the time he proposed the Architecture of the Air it seems to have been very difficult to imagine. In The Architecture of the City Rossi devotes a considerable portion of the text to a discussion of monuments and their relation to the urban environment. The human figures seem to be preoccupied with all sorts of activities, some of them are simply strolling about the urban design. The idea of stabilising a climate, rather than painting a composition, is not so far removed from the theory of painting that was implicated in Brunelleschi's demonstration of perspective back in Renaissance Florence.
