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Subtle Substances: the Architecture of Lina Bo Bardi
Olivia de Oliveira
Product details
Format: Book
Pages: 400
Publisher: Romano Guerra Editora
Date Published: Jul 2006
Stock Code: 58592
ISBN: 9788425220838
Binding: Hardback
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Description
This highly attractive and colourful work is a symphonically structured analysis of the work of the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. A major figure in Modernism, she has been somewhat overlooked - de Oliveira attempts to redress that with a meditation on her houses (including the now demolished Chame-Chame House), grey zones, the religious and playful, and the Sao Paulo Art Museum, among others.
Bo Bardi's work prizes simplicity, spontaneity, the residual and the ephemeral - incorporating everydayness and the energy of the people who use it. She used the word 'substances', rather than 'materials', to explain what her architecture was made of - air, light, nature and art. Her work is presented here via a huge array of previously unpublished drawings, images, writings and projects that enable the reader to grasp in a kaleidoscopic way the power and current importance of her architecture as a critical confrontation with established reality.
