TY - BOOK ID - 588145 TI - Lina Bo Bardi : the theory of architectural practice PY - 2014 SN - 9780415689120 9780415689137 0415689120 0415689139 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - architectuur KW - architecture [discipline] KW - Bardi, Lina Bo KW - Architecture KW - ARCHITECTURE / General. KW - ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-). KW - ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General. KW - Bo Bardi, Lina KW - 72.01 KW - Philosophy. KW - Architectuur (theorie) KW - Architectuurtheorie KW - Bardi, Lina Bo, KW - Bo Bardi, Lina, KW - Written works. KW - Study and teaching. KW - ARCHITECTURE / General KW - ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-) KW - ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General KW - Philosophy KW - Brazil KW - Philosophie KW - Écrit d'architecte KW - Architecte KW - Brésil KW - Étude et enseignement UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:588145 AB - The architect, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), has long been considered one of the major modern architects of the twentieth century in Brazil. The Glass House (1951), a residence for herself and her husband, gained wide acclaim, appearing in architectural periodicals throughout 1953-54. Her iconic Museum of Art of São Paulo (1968), and the bold, Social Service for Commerce Building-Pompéia, São Paulo (1986), have gained recognition in recent years and her reputation is beginning to be acknowledged internationally. Bo Bardi's major writings on architecture, however, have not been translated, and are not well known. This book contains the first English-language translation of Propeadeutic Contribution to the Teaching of Architecture Theory, (Habitat, Ltd. São Paulo, 1957), a seminal text, published in Portuguese by the Italo-Brazilian Bo Bardi. It is arguably the first published writing on architecture theory by a practicing woman architect. Accompanying the translation is an introductory essay that interprets Bo Bardi's text as a critical and constructive theory of architecture built from a collection of textual and visual artifacts. This translation clearly renders Bo Bardi's work in English, and contextualizes it theoretically, taking into account the specific historical sources and contemporaneous discourses from which it draws. With comparisons to other important architectural pedagogies and theoretical texts of the period, it is also an inquiry into the nature of architecture history and theory, its role in education and its relation to practice. ER -