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17 ago 2015

Lina Bo Bardi

— I never wanted to be young.
What I wanted was to have a History


In 1951 Bo Bardi designed the "Casa de Vidro" (“Glass House”) to live with her husband 



 Drawings 









After the Flood

http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/16/after-the-flood

10 dic 2011

Brutalist architecture II



L’Architecture, c’est, avec des matieres bruts, établir des rapports émouvantes. Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture. 






24-28, Rue du Commandant René Mouchotte, Montparnasse, Paris


Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam. 


Bratislava- Commemorates the construction of the link road and associated bridges/underpasses


Durham University


Freeway Park, Seattle


Palace of Concerts and Sports.  Vilnius, Lithuania, 1971

The Grade II listed Trellick Tower as seen from Goldborne Road in West London. It was designed in the "Brutalist" style by Ernő Goldfinger and completed in 1972.



The New Museums Site, University of Cambridge. Arup Associates 1966-1974


Wotruba Church, Vienna. 





8 dic 2011

Brutalist architecture I




'With many Brutalist buildings, the feeling exists that the needs of expressing an architectural ideal comes before the needs of the human beings who have to use them'
Cardross Seminary, near Glasgow, Scotland 1960s


John Lewis, Aberdeen


Leeds University


Lecture Theatre, Brunel University 


The Bull Ring Shopping Centre, Birmingham (Opened May 1964, Demolished June 2000)


The Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London


Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, University of Regensburg, Germany


The Salk Institute, San Diego


Brutalism was a movement in architecture which flourished in the 1960s and 1970s. Pioneered in continental Europe by Le Corbusier.