Observations on the Fantastic Nature in the Architecture of Aldo Rossi

The Aldo Rossi's project study has progressively made the writer develop the idea of a composition that moves on the level of fantasy according to a fantastic interpretation that goes beyond its obvious literary meaning. Indeed, one can consider fantastic the reality that fantasy transfigures into unreal and improbable shapes obtained by arbitrarily combining images with images, as it happens in those childish representations of childhood, hardly comprehensible to the intellect and to custom. Or you can think of applying the term fantastic to all that reality, which with its conventional and customary though not at all bizarre shapes, produces a state of wonder in contemplating and grasping the profound meaning that animates reality. Then what is fantastic is that sense of wonder that reality produces in our imagination, when it makes us perceive another imagined truth, which is ideal, but equally real, beyond the obviousness of things, beyond appearance.