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One of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil in 1946, where her practice evolved within the social and cultural realities of her adopted country. While she continued to work with industrial materials, she added simple building techniques and naturalistic forms to her designs, striving to create large, multiuse spaces that promoted public life.

Lina Bo Bardi is the first comprehensive study of the architect's life and work. Author Zeuler Lima, the leading authority on Bo Bardi, presents her activities on two continents, examining how ethical and social considerations influenced her intellectual engagement with modern architecture and providing an indispensable guide to her writings and her experimental, iconic designs.

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In his foreword to this book, architecture curator Barry Bergdoll (MoMA; Columbia Univ.) notes the difficulty in describing the work of Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. For Bergdoll, the body of work "resists any easy stylistic categorization as it moves from the most inventive embrace of new technical and material possibilities to an engagement with traditional means and images of building." To address this, Lima (Washington Univ. in St. Louis) organizes the book chronologically to discuss the development of Bardi's work, her ideas, and critiques. Ranging from work produced in Italy through her most important buildings and commissions in Brazil, the book presents their historical development and programmatic concerns as well as Bardi's ideas on how to relate her work to its specific contexts and material conditions. Lima addresses the influences of local traditions, and also investigations into methods of design that tapped into and expressed popular and populist sensibilities. These influences and methods are also expressed in many of the sketches for projects, works, and performances reproduced within the book. Based on a variety of sources, this volume is clearly the product of many years of extensive research and consideration. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. L. E. Carranza Roger Williams University

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Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima is an architect, curator, artist, and associate professor at the School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.