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About this book

Lina Bo Bardi (19141992) was a prolific architect designer and thinker whose work absorbing her native Italy and then after 1946 her adopted home-land Brazil spans across architecture furniture stage and costume design urban planning curatorial work teaching and writing. This collection of essays is the first-ever English anthology of her of writings. It includes texts written when she was still living in Italy as well as later contributions to a number of Brazilian newspapers journals and magazines. An acute critic and a creative thinker Bo Bardi proposes a series of new parameters for design thinking and practice such as the notions of historical present roughness and tolerance to imperfection. Presented collectively her texts present a wealth of inspirational thoughts articulated in a refreshingly simple straightforward fashion. Introduction by Silvana Rubino