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Lina Bo Bardi
Material Intelligence
Surface acting as spatial structure
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Lina Bo Bardi
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Surface acting as spatial structure
Index Code:
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Orgin:
Field Notes:
Space as stage • Structure supporting life • Material left direct
Defining Moment:
SESC Pompéia made her philosophy legible — rough concrete, social openness, and adaptable interiors forming a democratic spatial system.

Lina Bo Bardi

( 
1940s–1990s
 )
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Bo Bardi’s work forms a world grounded in social openness — space conceived as adaptable structure rather than fixed form.

Light enters across generous spans.

Boundaries remain flexible and direct.

Rooms support collective presence.

Edges act as thresholds for movement.

Volume adjusts to the life it holds.

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Concrete becomes democratic space.

Structural Focus

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In Lina Bo Bardi’s work, this approach appears where civic openness defines structural threshold.

Position

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In Lina Bo Bardi’s work, this approach appears where civic openness defines structural threshold.
Constructed Surfaces
Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.
Systems of Clarity
Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.
Structure
Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.
Space
Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.
Gesture
Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.
Architecture
Form organizes space through structure, proportion, and material decision.
Mexican Modernism
Modernism integrates local material, climate, and cultural context.
Social Modernism
Modern form addresses collective and social needs.
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Observartory

Glass House — Lina Bo Bardi
Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

By Structural Focus

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How are these related?
Quiet Modernism relates practices through how form is organized rather than how it appears. Connections emerge through shared structural conditions — such as repetition, constraint, spatial organization, material behavior, or duration — even when outcomes differ.

A single grouping may reflect multiple overlapping structural concerns.
Ricardo Legorreta
Material determining architectural form
Álvaro Siza
Geometry organizing spatial order

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