Reframing Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture as an Expanded Field (Routledge Research in Architecture)

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 in Brazil, Lina Bo Bardi 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.Across these contexts, the book returns to key concerns in her work: her experimen