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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
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Lina Bo Bardi – Habitat
| Editor | José Esparza Chong Cuy, Julieta González, Adriano Pedrosa et al. |
| Publisher | MASP |
| Year | 2020 |
| Cover | Softcover with dust jacket |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-3-7913-5964-9 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Weight | 1218 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Luis M. Castaneda, Beatriz Colomina, Esther da Costa Meyer et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo |
| Article ID | art-67405 |
From furniture and exhibition design to monumental domestic and public architectural projects, the breadth of Lina Bo Bardi's multidisciplinary work is showcased in this richly illustrated book.
Lina Bo Bardi is regarded as one of the most important architects in Brazil's history. Beginning her career as a Modernist architect in Rome, Bo Bardi and her husband emigrated to Brazil following the end of WWII. Bo Bardi quickly resumed her practice in her adopted homeland with architecture that was both modern and firmly rooted in the culture of Brazil.
In 1951 she designed "Casa de Vidro" ("Glass House"), her first built work, where she and her husband would live for the rest of their lives. She also designed the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo Art Museum), a landmark of Latin American modernist architecture which opened in 1968. It was for this museum she created the iconic glass easel display system, which remains radical to date.
This book presents a comprehensive record of Bo Bardi's overarching approach to art and architecture and shows how her exhibition designs, curatorial projects, and writing informed her spatial designs. Essays on Bo Bardi's life and work accompany archival material such as design sketches and writings by the artist, giving new insight into the conceptual and material processes behind this radical thinker and creator's projects.
