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. Winner
of the Curtin University Humanities Research Award 2017 for Best
Book of the Year (Oct. 2017). Here the judges' appraisal: "An
elegantly conceptualised and carefully crafted volume that
represents the work of the twentieth century Brazilian architect
Lina Bo Bardi through the lens of urgent contemporary questions of
sustainability, adaptive re-use and ethical design. The book brings
together a multidisciplinary and international collection of
authors and addresses a global readership. It is beautifully
presented and intelligently edited." (Jury, Book Award 2017) Winner
of the Curtin University Humanities Research Award 2017 for Best
Chapter of the Year (Sept. 2017): Annette Condello. Chapter 3
"Salvaging the Site's Luxuriance: Lina Bo Bardi - Landscape
Architect." Here the judges appraisal: "A richly textured
investigation of Lina Bo Bardi, a complex, fascinating and
important Italian-born Brazilian architect, designer and co-founder
of the magazine Habitat. [...] This chapter is a thoughtful and
respectful but also critical piece, combining thorough research
with deft analysis and carefully selected images, and the
publication has been highly recommended by leading academics and
curators." (Jury, Book Award 2017)
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