Uma ideia de arquitetura

About this book

A survey and an analysis of the written work of the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), through which Marina Grinover presents bibliographic information, data from magazines in which the architect participated and an unprecedented set of similar facs in Italian (translated) and Portuguese. In addition, it has a bibliographic list of the 570 texts so far known as Lina's. In parallel, the author unveils the intellectual landscape of the publications in which the architect worked in Italy and Brazil. Through the survey of the fundamental ideas of his colleagues in rationalist Italy from 1940 to 1946, the debate in magazines and newspapers such as Domus, Casabella, Lo Stile and Grazia, Grinover presents the context in which modern architecture was consolidated in that country.The book also addresses the panorama of architecture ideas in modernist Brazil and after Brasilia, covering the period from 1947 to 1992, to structure the path of the written work of the immigrated architect. Elaborating her idea of ??architecture in Habitat, Mirante das Artes and Malasartes magazines, or newspapers of the time, Lina Bo Bardi collaborated for the diffusion of modern national architecture, valuing the construction of an urban culture anchored in the experiences of European avant-garde and an unalienated sense for the popular lexicon.