Work
SESC Pompéia
Explore in the Atlas →Lina Bo Bardi's adaptive reuse of a drum factory into a working-class leisure and culture centre, preserving the industrial fabric and adding raw concrete towers, is a manifesto for socially radical, history-keeping architecture.
Collectivity Production Memory Heritage Care
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- São Paulo, Brazil
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceReason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipText drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- exemplifies Brutalism
- exemplifies Brazilian Modernism
Referenced by
- Lina Bo Bardi authored
Sources
- Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima. Lina Bo Bardi. Yale University Press, 2013.
- Olivia de Oliveira. Subtle Substances: The Architecture of Lina Bo Bardi. Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2006.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "SESC Pompéia." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/sesc-pompeia/. Accessed July 17, 2026.