Lina Bo Bardi

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A side entrance to Bo Bardi's Fábrica da Pompéia

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Tripod armchair, 1948

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The Glass House, present

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living room, Glass House

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leather sling chairs with brass ball hand-rests

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tripod chair in Glass House

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courtyard, Glass House

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crystal and iron shelves, Glass House

"What does the word Architecture intend to mean? At first, limiting it to the art of building could seem passive and, in an even more restricted way, concern just the house construction. But Architecture is almost implicitly everything which is structure and representation, from the rocks, the skeleton, from the structure of the atom up to the appearance of the spheres that are part of the planetary system. The man made efforts, using the elements that nature gave him, in order to modify and reorganize this same nature, created architectures that, by improving themselves, spread through the world, giving origin to new architectures, from the rock to the interplanetary satellite, from the cave to the sky-scraper, from the pendulous do the cathedral."

Lina Bo Bardi, Contribuição Propedêutica ao Ensino da Teoria da Arquitetura, 1957

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