Work

SESC Pompéia

1986
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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.

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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

Referenced by

Sources

  1. Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima. Lina Bo Bardi. Yale University Press, 2013.
  2. 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.