Sustainable Lina

Lina Bo Bardi's Adaptive Reuse Projects

herausgegeben von: Annette Condello, Steffen Lehmann

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi’s late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The edited book charts how Lina Bo Bardi “invented” her own version of sustainability, introduced this concept through her landscape and adaptive reuse designs and through ideas about cross-cultures in Brazil. The book offers a critical reflection, exploration and demonstration of the importance of adaptive reuse in the landscape and related themes for researchers and provides researchers and students new material on sustainability for further study.

In the context of the plurality of revisions of Lina Bo Bardi’s work, this book brings about a refreshed interpretation of her integrative approach to adaptive reuse of buildings and landscapes as a significant contribution to the sustainability debate. It offers new insights into the construction of discourses about sustainability from the perspective of one of the key architects in the period to operate in the interface between modernity and tradition.

– Dr Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth (UK)

Adaptability is one of the most important words in sustainable architecture today. From this perspective, this book looks at the work of a master of Brazilian modernism with lessons to be learnt on how to qualify indoor and outdoor spaces in social, environmental and architectural terms. Adaptive strategies as those seen throughout the work of Bo Bardi are key instrument/tools/concept to sustainable buildings and cities.

− Professor Joana Carla Soares Goncalves, FAU, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)

The year 2015 marked the centenary of Lina Bo Bardi. This book is looking at Bardi's work through the perspective of adaptive reuse. Bringing together specialists on sustainability with specialists of Lina's work, the book generates an interesting new layer of discussion on the work of an architect that was never shy of controversy.

− Associate Professor Fernando Luiz Lara, University of Texas at Austin (USA)

This collection of essays makes a very important and engaging contribution to suggest that to take Lina as an inspiration is to deal with her contradictions and to evaluate the stakes of what she struggled with in a 21st century world. What the authors gathered here and have laid out is a very timely invitation to discern “Lessons from Lina” in relationship to today’s pressing issues of architecture and environment, sustainability, recycling, and developing an ethical design position in a world of diminishing resources and escalating challenges.<

-Prof Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University and MoMA, New York (USA)

The book features a Foreword by Barry Bergdoll.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Sustainable Lina, An Introduction

Abstract

Foreseen to be one of the biggest events to happen in Brazilian history, the fervour of the approaching Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro must address its recent environmental and ecological crises.

Annette Condello, Steffen Lehmann

Chapter 2. Keeping the Existing: Lina Bo Bardi’s Upcycling and Urban Renewal Strategies

Abstract

One of the most remarkable Brazilian architects in the 20th Century, Italian émigré Lina Bo Bardi (Rome 1914—São Paulo 1992) has recently been “rediscovered” and her heterogeneous and unusually diverse oeuvre been celebrated. Born in Italy and arriving in Brazil in 1946, multi-talented Bo Bardi was, as well as an architect, a furniture designer, urbanist, political activist, editor and writer and a curator of exhibitions.

Steffen Lehmann

Chapter 3. Salvaging the Site’s Luxuriance: Lina Bo Bardi—Landscape Architect

Abstract

Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi was a doyenne of urban renewal, curator of exhibitions and thrifty stage-sets. She was also an industrious landscape architect. Brazil’s periphery predestined Bo Bardi’s ideas about repurposing existing building sites from the 1950s onward. Conventionally, scholars have considered Bo Bardi’s work as a series of isolated objects, but this chapter analyses her adaptive reuse projects work through the lens of landscape.

Annette Condello

Chapter 4. Recycling and Restoration: Adding New Meaning to Historical Buildings Through Minimal Interventions

Abstract

The strategy of recycling is central to Bo Bardi’s design research methods. After graduating in architecture in Rome at Gustavo Giovannoni’s school, Lina Bo Bardi was trained in scientific restoration and later, in Brazil, followed his development of critical restoration. These design principles of critical restoration were first applied to the Solar do Unhao museum. This restoration and adaptation, however, was simultaneous to her ethnographical research on utensils that were produced by poor and rural inhabitants of the Northeast region. Beyond the use of handicraft building techniques in the construction of the Solar do Unhao museum’s new stair, the clever reuse of simple domestic objects as utensils for everyday life founded the principles of what Bo Bardi nominated as “the civilization of survival.” What she found in these recycled objects was essentiality, which she considered comparable to the essence of Japanese culture. Such essentiality was present in Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompeia factory design, converted into a leisure centre with minimum and specific interventions, aimed at converting places with its new use (happiness and joy). In accomplishing this aim, she applied all her skills in set and furniture design, looking to create pleasant scenarios for daily life.

Renato Anelli

Backmatter

Titel: Sustainable Lina
herausgegeben von: Annette Condello
Steffen Lehmann
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-32984-0
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-32983-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32984-0