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Casas de vidro = Glass houses / organização = editors, Renato Anelli, Sol Camacho ; prefácio = preface, Barry Bergdoll.

Title
Casas de vidro = Glass houses / organização = editors, Renato Anelli, Sol Camacho ; prefácio = preface, Barry Bergdoll.
Publication
São Paulo, Brasil : Romano Guerra Editora, 2018.

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Additional Authors
  • Anelli, Renato,
  • Bardi, Lina Bo, 1914-1992.
  • Bergdoll, Barry,
  • Camacho, Sol,
  • Centro Carioca de Design (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), host institution.
  • Eames, Charles.
  • Eames, Ray.
  • Elmhurst Art Museum, host institution.
  • Getty Foundation, sponsoring body.
  • Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi, issuing body.
  • Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005.
  • Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
  • Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo. issuing body.
Description
139 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits; 26 cm.
Summary
The book is a comparative study between Lina Bo Bardi's "Casa de Vidrio (Glass House) in Morumbi, São Paulo and 3 other modernist examples of glass and steel residential projects: the Eames House (also known as Case Study House No. 8) in Southern California, the Glass House, or Johnson House (designed by Philip C. Johnson), in New Canaan, Connecticut, and the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, designed by Mies van der Rohe, as a tool for understanding Bardi's own story and the future of the Glass House. It also brings unpublished photos and drawings of the four projects.
Uniform Title
  • Casas de vidro.
  • Casas de vidro. English.
Alternative Title
Glass houses
Subjects
Note
  • "Exposição "Casas de Vidrio = Glass Houses Exhibition. Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst jun-ago 2018 = June-August 2018. Centro Carioca de Design, Rio de Janeiro, out-dez 2018 = October-December 2018"--Verso title page.
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Glass Houses" produced by the Instituto Bardi and Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of the USP São Carlos in 2017, within the program "Keeping it Modern", of the Getty Foundation, as part of the management plan for the conservation of the residence of married couple Lina and Pietro Bardi.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Parallel texts in Portuguese and English.
Contents
Prefácio = Preface / Barry Bergdoll -- Casas de vidro = Glass houses / Renato Anelli -- Encontro no MASP = MASP encounter -- A casa como espaço expositivo = The house as an exhibition space -- Biografia dos arquitetos = Architects' biography.
ISBN
  • 9788588585799
  • 8588585790
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries