A monochrome palette of traditional Portuguese mosaic paving and granite edging merges with modern building techniques for precision at curves and geometric edges Organic curves are formed by the seamless integration of the continuous steps with elevated plateaus Strategically positioned stylized street furniture creates places to pause and contemplate the scenery An extension to the new landscaped square at the Glauber Rocha Theatre the stairway opens up views along its passage to the Gregório de Matos Foundation at Barroquinha Church escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox the Camurupim project is an attempt to regroup the local population around a services core to make community functioning easier and to improve the precarious situation of peasants Though at first the government supported the initiative as part of a strategy for territorial development political instability prevented the project from being carried to term Lina Bo Bardi simply mediated in a process that was to be developed by the community members She studied their needs and aspirations through surveys and field work and designed technical solutions combining standardization and self-build methods are distributed organically following the contour lines on a hill crowned by a building of community services thus allowing serial construction by means of prefab panels of wood and mud but the process is optimized by making dimensions equal and standardizing the building elements there arent any match using your search terms Collection of essays transformed into a book highlights the essence of Lina Bo Bardi's humanistic thinking IMAGES RELEASE COSAC&NAIFYMASP under construction (1968)IMAGES RELEASE COSAC&NAIFY would have formed part of Brazil’s architectural history for the landmarks she created and designed especially in two major Brazilian cities: São Paulo and Salvador a notable blend of modern architecture and visual art still fascinate her professional colleagues and the people who move about the spaces that she created (the São Paulo Art Museum) and SESC-Pompéia she drew up an important plan for the renovation of Salvador’s historical center in which she advocated the conservation of the city’s “popular soul” by keeping the people living there in place her work encompassed the renovation of the steep Ladeira da Misericórdia street with the Coati bar; the Sé Belvedere; the Barroquinha project; the Benin House; the Olodum House; and the Gregório de Mattos Theater when asked which had been her best project the most important is the miserable little chapel in the town of Uberlândia with the Franciscan priests and the prostitutes.”  Lina besides helping to make architectural history changed everything around her in many other ways She was an outstanding thinker and cultural agitator who tried to debate the most important themes in modern The press and specialized magazines were fundamental for the dissemination of Lina’s thinking Giò Ponti and Ernesto Rogers in writing seminal articles that advocated a contemporary and critical view of urban living She also divulged architectural achievements and contemporary art in publications such as Domus and Lo Stile Things were no different when she moved to Brazil after the war along with her husband Pietro Maria Bardi (1900-1999) – both of whom played a key role in the expansion of Masp which they transformed from a little-known gallery into one of the finest collection of paintings south of the Equator – she directed the magazine Habitat which became an important periodical in the 1950’s and 1960’s she voiced her advocacy for the European artistic avant-garde side by side with intellectuals and foreigners connected with the University of Bahia she planted the ideas that would become the basis for the New Cinema and Tropicalia movements The grandiose scale and extension of everything that Lina created and produced poses a challenge for many researchers Part of this gap started being filled in the last few years thanks to theses about her This is furthered by the release of the book Lina por escrito [Lina in writing] a selection of 33 articles published from the 1940s to the 1990s a professor from Unicamp’s history department and a member of the board of governors of Iphan (the National Artistic and Historical Heritage Institute) along with architect and master’s degree candidate Marina Grinover from USP’s School of Architecture (FAU) as well as some of the layouts she prepared especially for the original publication of her texts IMAGES RELEASE COSAC&NAIFYIn São Paulo: staircase from the glass houseIMAGES RELEASE COSAC&NAIFY her intellectual production draws our attention for the clarity and intelligence with which the architect tried to sensitize the public to the poetics of simplicity but as something representative of the country’s wealth of diversity and culture she explored the issue of the arenas of coexistence of free men while also contemplating the themes that permeated her profession: industrial design and the conservation of the urban memory and historical landmarks Silvana Rubino narrates that her contact with Lina – whom she never met- is that of one who has specialized in Lina’s work and path because buildings such as Masp had been part of my urban and cultural experience.” An exhibition about Lina along with the book edited by Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz (Lina Bo Bardi The researcher tells us that the selection of articles resulted from conversations with Cristina Filho who was in charge of books on architecture at the Cosac Naify publishing house “I had defended my doctoral thesis (not yet published) about Lina’s path and talking to Cristina about gaps concerning architecture in the editorial milieu we realized that a book containing all her articles was needed.” “But we concluded that this way it would end up rather disproportional from the editorial point of view and we decided to put it all in chronological order which enables the reader to follow the evolution of the architect’s thinking during the course of six decades.” Out of a total of 60 articles 17 were excluded because they repeated ideas or themes and added little had become true “classics” of modern Brazilian architecture We chose a combination of articles about architecture published at different times during the course of Lina’s career These thoughts discuss a range of subjects “The architect is an intellectual; devising a building is but thinking about the society in which he lives Lina’s concerns were those of an intellectual of her time,” assess Silvana is that Lina constantly took a position in relation to architecture and to what her contemporaries were doing one of Silvana’s favorites is “Teoria e filosofia da arquitetura” [Theory and philosophy of architecture] “When I read this handwritten lecture It was pure Antonio Gramsci translated into architects parlance I started seeing with different eyes what she discusses I started regarding her as an artist moving between different fields of knowledge.” IMAGES RELEASE COSAC&NAIFYLina Bo Bardi restoring a figurehead from the São Francisco riverIMAGES RELEASE COSAC&NAIFY Another essay that Silvana feels is relevant is “Cinco anos entre os brancos” [Five years among the whites] which the professor describes as a sort of testament-letter non-anesthetized analysis” of the promises made prior to the 1964 coup which did not come true because of the dictatorship that was established “Roberto Schwartz wrote that Brazil was unrecognizably intelligent in the early 1960’s and somehow Lina underlines this.” She does not talk about architecture but about the “collective hopes that will not be deleted.” The article was published in 1967 Marina Grinover helped to prepare the book because Lina’s writings – her critical faculties in particular – are the subject matter of her master’s degree at USP Marina says that there is sufficient content to organize further tomes papers and catalogs in which Lina’s texts were published as from 1941 whose manuscripts and letters are being organized “By reading the set of texts selected by Professor Silvana one can enter Lina’s thematic universe and realize that there is invariably a propositional touch concerning the ideas that permeated the generation of architects to which she belonged,” assess the researcher These thoughts are connected with modern culture and its paradigms “Lina always believed in the emancipating potential that art (and we can include architecture in this) has to make us develop a private and collective existence (in sum A person who is highly familiar with Lina’s writings is Professor Vera Santana Luz who in 2004 defended at USP her architecture and urbanism doctoral thesis “Ordem e origem em Lina Bo Bardi” [Order and origin in Lina Bo Bardi] under the guidance of Rafael Antonio Cunha Perrone she first consulted the formal collection arranged by Professor Sophia da Silva Telles “The publishing of Lina’s writings in the form of a book is most important because it expands the range of access and possibilities of those interested in studying her work and her ideas.” Vera draws attention to the fact that there is no paradox between Lina’s intellectual discourse and praxis “Her thinking and the realization of her projects and designs have become one of the paradigms of modern twentieth century architecture not only for her particular vision of the architecture that could be built in Brazil but also of the international modern movement.” Her world vision of the role of architecture “I think that Lina managed to bring together universality and specificity – which in my doctorate I have referred to as order and origin respectively – in the broadest sense of these expressions without falling into regionalist schemes or empty generalizations.” © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved A mapping conducted by Salvador’s Civil Defense in 2023 revealed that the Bahian capital has 405 buildings at high or very high risk of collapse or fire The mapped buildings are located in the historic and old city centers which are known for having a high number of abandoned structures The areas with the most reported incidents are Pelourinho Civil Defense stated that the most recent survey accounts for 2,969 historic buildings (mansions of which 327 are at high risk and 117 at very high risk The agency did not specify the date when this survey was conducted whose roof collapsed on Wednesday afternoon (5) Read the article in the original language Receive in your email inbox a summary of the day Suffocated by the intense traffic of São Paulo the Anhangabaú Valley was the subject of a public competition held in 1981 and that called for ideas on how to revert a process that had transformed the park into an avenue with big parking areas who entered the competition with a team of eight but does not forgo the possibility of recovering the street level for pedestrians A large elevated bridge runs along the valley’s full length bearing the weight of two levels of traffic that are separated by nine meters with asymmetric ramifications that challenge the usual logic of symmetry-based engineering works The suspended thoroughfare doesn’t follow a straight line either but rather curves generating gently rolling valleys and hills throughout the itinerary Aside from redirecting traffic through this contemporary aqueduct the project proposes renewing some of the surrounding buildings to create leisure and gathering spaces Atop the tallest building a restaurant and public lookout offer panoramic views of the city for everyone to enjoy Included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1985 gathered a series of unique urban and architectural features inherited from its past as colonial capital When the commissioned Lina Bo Bardi to develop the refurbishment project the center was practically in ruins with over thirty percent of abandoned properties the intervention focussed not only on restoring the relevant structures but also on preserving the ‘popular soul’ of the city creating a productive tissue that would avoid displacing the local population Specific historic buildings are strategically selected to be transformed into artistic or cultural landmarks in the city such as the Gregório de Mattos Theater or the Casa do Benin in the Ladeira da Misericordia a prototype develops a repertoire of constructive solutions that can be used in the other decaying properties the strategy is based on the idea of giving the public space back to pedestrians eliminating traffic and inserting a series of ephemeral objects like fountains which favor interaction among citizens and social activity