One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.
Aldo Rossi
The city is the repository of the joint recollection, a nexus of memories linked to objects and sites.
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One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
Aldo Rossi
One cannot construct architecture without researching the reality of life in the metropolis.
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What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.