Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A Search for Living Architecture

. Louis. About the Author Daniell Cornell is Director of Art at the Palm Springs Art Museum.Zeuler Lima the author of Lina Bo Bardi, is Associate Professor at Washington University in St

This book proposes a dialogue between two key 20th-century architects, Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi. in the early 1930s and Bo Bardi emigrated from Italy to Brazil after the end of World War II. While they never met, their intellectual odysseys overlapped. Both fostered the integration among architecture, landscape, and people, helping transform the architectural culture in their adoptive countries. Bo Bardi produced idiosyncratic works that strove to merge modern and traditional vocabularies in an architecture conceived as a stage for everyday life. Frey, a pioneer of “desert modernism” in southern California, embraced the landscape and experimented with materials to create elegantly detailed structures. This unique book documents the work and lives of two 20th-century architects, Lina Bo Bardi and Albert Frey, whose shared beliefs anticipated today’s architectural principles of integration among humans, earth, and the built environment. Their design affinities converged in the notion of a living architecture, evident in their publications and the projects featured here. Placing these architects side by side, the authors explore modern architecture through cross-cultural exchanges and unveil meaningful, though little known, architectural dialogues across cultures and continents.. Frey moved from Switzerland to the U.S

. Daniell Cornell is Director of Art at the Palm Springs Art Museum.Zeuler Lima the author of Lina Bo Bardi, is Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis