Main entry:

Oliveira, Olivia de.

Title & Author:

Subtle substances : the architecture of Lina Bo Bardi / Olivia de Oliveira ; tr. Mark N. Gimson.

Publication:

São Paulo : Romano Guerrra ; Barcelona : Gustavo Gili, 2006.

Description:

399 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Published also in Portuguese.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-399).
Introduction -- Overture -- Lina's houses : overcoming contradictions -- First movement -- The glass house -- The Chame-Chame house -- The house as a recounted myth/as the extraordinary -- Interval for children -- The popular and the religious in Lina Bo Bardi's work -- SESC -- Second movement -- The MASP -- On the notion of time in Lina Bo Bardi's work.

Summary:

Lina Bo Bardi, the Rome-born architect, emigrated after World War Two to Brazil, a country where she undertook her professional career. The outcome of her personal experience and of a wish to get closer to the culture and ways of life of the people, Bo Bardi's creativity moved in the direction of an architecture that prized simplicity, spontaneity, the residual and the ephem-eral; an architecture understood as 'an organism suitable for life' which incorporated everydayness and the energy of the people who use it. As a result she used the word 'substances', rather than 'materials', to explain what her architecture was made of. These substances are air, light, nature and art, to which the author, Olivia de Oliveira, adds time. The work of Lina Bo Bardi, then, is presented here via a huge array of previously unpublished drawings, images, writings and projects that enable the reader to grasp in a kaleidoscopic way the power and current importance of her architecture as a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. -- book cover.

ISBN:

8425220831 (hardcover)
9788425220838 (hardcover)

Subject:

Bardi, Lina Bo, 1914-1992.
Architecture Brazil 20th century.
Architecture Brésil 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Arquitectos italianos.
Arquitectura Brasil Siglo XX.
Arquitectura moderna Brasil Siglo XX.
Brazil.

Added entries:

Bardi, Lina Bo, 1914-1992.
Gimson, Mark N., translator.

Architecture of Lina Bo Bardi
Lina Bo Bardi

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250852
Call No.: BIB 180352
Status: Available