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Salvaging the Site’s Luxuriance: Lina Bo Bardi—Landscape Architect

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Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi was a doyenne of urban renewal, curator of exhibitions and thrifty stage-sets. She was also an industrious landscape architect . Brazil’s periphery predestined Bo Bardi’s ideas about repurposing existing building sites from the 1950s onward. Conventionally, scholars have considered Bo Bardi’s work as a series of isolated objects, but this chapter analyses her adaptive reuse projects work through the lens of landscape.

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Condello, A. (2016). Salvaging the Site’s Luxuriance: Lina Bo Bardi—Landscape Architect. In: Condello, A., Lehmann, S. (eds) Sustainable Lina. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32984-0_3

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