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A work of architecture and its critical reception: Casa de Vidro (1952-2014)

2022; FrancoAngeli; Issue: 98 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3280/tr2021-098019

2239-6330

Aline Coelho Sanches, Amanda Basso Morelli,

Architecture, Modernity, and Design

This article proposes a reflection on the critical reception of the Casa de Vidro, a Lina Bo Bardi's work, which was where she and Pietro Maria Bardi lived, and which is today home to the Bardi Institute. The contents use methods of historical research, focused on secondary sources, cross-referencing them with unpublished primary sources. It maps, describes, and analyses the critical reception of the project between 1952 and 2014, identifying the periods of greatest interest in the project, and the main values mobilized then. The text concludes with the control exercised by the couple over part of that critical reception, as well as the importance given to the aspects of hybridization and conciliation of opposites as of the 1990s.