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Reframing Lina Bo Bardi

Architecture as an Expanded Field

Av Pablo Meninato, Vanessa Grossman

Del i serien Routledge Research in Architecture

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Reframing Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture as an Expanded Field offers a compelling and rigorous re-examination of one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. Born in Italy and later naturalized as a Brazilian citizen, Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) pursued an interdisciplinary practice that traversed architecture, design, journalism, museology, education, and political engagement. While her work has long circulated within specialist debates, it has only recently received the sustained critical attention it warrants.This edited volume brings together an international range of contributors from diverse intellectual contexts to situate Bo Bardi’s work within broader cultural, intellectual, and historical frameworks. Organized into four sections and thirteen chapters, it traces key moments in her trajectory, from her formative years in Italy to her radical reconfigurations of architectural practice in São Paulo and Bahia. Focusing on these contexts, the book examines the central concerns of her work: her experimental curatorial strategies; her personal and professional partnership with Pietro Maria Bardi (1900–1999); and her negotiation among modernism’s canonical doctrines, vernacular cultures, and environmental considerations. Rather than treating these as separate themes, the volume reads them as interconnected aspects of her architectural thinking and practice.By interweaving these dimensions, Reframing Lina Bo Bardi offers a nuanced and multifaceted account of her enduring impact on architecture, urbanism, design, and cultural production. It stands as an essential reference for scholars and students of architecture, urbanism, art history, and design, as well as for readers interested in the intersections between architecture, culture, and politics.
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Pablo Meninato, PhD, is an architect, architectural critic, educator, and native of Argentina whose work focuses on the intersections of architecture, urbanism, and social change, with particular emphasis on Latin America. He is currently Associate Professor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. Meninato is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2024–2025 Fulbright US Scholar Award. He currently serves as President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. He is the author and editor of various books, including Unexpected Affinities: The Concept of Type in the Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp (Routledge, 2018) and Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America (co-authored, Routledge, 2024).Vanessa Grossman, PhD, is an architect, historian, curator, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Her work investigates architecture’s relationship to ideology, governance, and socio-environmental justice, with a focus on the politics of modernism and modernization. Her research spans Cold War design cultures, as well as the histories of labor, technology, urbanism, and housing in France, Brazil, and the broader Global South, along with the transnational networks that shaped them. She also studies the place of women in architecture during the Cold War, including architects such as Renée Gailhoustet (1929–2023) and Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), analyzing the political dimensions of their work and their avant- garde ambitions for social transformation. Grossman is the author ofA Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France (Yale University Press, 2024) and co-editor of Constructed Geographies: Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Casa da Arquitectura/ Yale, 2024), which received the 2026 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions from the College Art Association. She is also co-author of Oscar Niemeyer en France: Un Exil Créatif (Éditions du patrimoine, 2021) and co-editor of Everyday Matters: Contemporary Approaches to Architecture (Ruby Press, 2021), AUA, une architecture de l’engagement, 1960–1985 (Cité de l’architecture/Éditions Dominique Carré, 2015), and Modernity: Promise or Menace? France, 101 Buildings, 1914–2014 (Institut français/ Éditions Dominique Carré, 2014). She co-curated the 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo (2019), titled Todo Dia/Everyday, as well as major exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, and Casa da Arquitectura.She is a recipient of the 2026 Salvatori Research Award from the University of Pennsylvania Center for Italian Studies, which supports the research and publication project presented in this volume.

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