Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A Search for Living

Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A Search for Living Architecture

This unique book documents the work and lives of two 20th-century architects, Lina Bo Bardi and Albert Frey, whose shared beliefs anticipated todayâ€™s architectural principles of integration among humans, earth, and the built environment. This book proposes a dialogue between two key 20th-century architects, Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi. Frey moved from Switzerland to the U.S. in the early 1930s and Bo Bardi emigrated from Italy to Brazil after the end of World War II. While they never met, their intellectual odysseys overlapped. Both fostered the integration among architecture, landscape, and people, helping transform the architectural culture in their adoptive countries. Their design affinities converged in the notion of a living architecture, evident in their publications and the projects featured here. Frey, a pioneer of "desert modernism" in southern California, embraced the landscape and experimented with materials to create elegantly detailed structures. Bo Bardi produced idiosyncratic works that strove to merge modern and traditional vocabularies in an architecture conceived as a stage for everyday life. Placing these architects side by side, the authors explore modern architecture through cross-cultural exchanges and unveil meaningful, though little known, architectural dialogues across cultures and continents.
Country USA
Brand Prestel
Manufacturer Prestel
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 125 colour illustrations
Color Tan
ReleaseDate 2017-10-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9783791356754

Country	USA
Brand	Prestel
Manufacturer	Prestel
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	125 colour illustrations
Color	Tan
ReleaseDate	2017-10-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9783791356754

Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A Search for Living Architecture

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