once again the sao paulo concrete fetish leads to wonderful things. lina bo bardi may well be the greatest female architect though such comparisons are difficult.
lina bo bardi: centro social SESC pompéia, são paulo 1977
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light and colour from lina bo bardi at her brilliant brutalist art museum MASP in são paulo, brazil
on the right hand wall, a painting of an incredibly fat lina bo bardi who viewed under the right angle becomes only moderately fat.
architect, lina bo bardi 1957-1968
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humble and yet ingenious detailing, perfectly in tune with the rest of lina bo bardi's museum of art in são paulo
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big city. the underbelly of the museum creates a forced panoramic view of sao paulo, one of the many "heroic" moves from architect lina bo bardi who knew exactly how to make a meaningful modern monument when she was given the chance.
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the height of brazilian cool brutalism.
lina bo bardi: centro social SESC pompéia, são paulo 1977
on the origin of brutalism, the idea of brutal honesty in architecture begins here:
"see if it looks as if it had been built by strong men; if it has the sort of roughness, and largeness, and nonchalance, mixed in places with the exquisite tenderness which seems always to be the sign-manual of the broad vision, and the massy power of men who can see past the work they are doing, and betray here and there something like disdain for it. If the building has this character, it is much already in its favour; it will go hard but it proves a noble one",
john ruskin, "the nature of gothic" in "stones of venice", 1851-1853.
more brutalist architecture.
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