Thisisrealarchitecture.blogspot.com Website Review

Lina Bo Bardi saw Architecture as spaces created by our occupation rather than inert spaces that we occupy. She understood the complex reciprocal relationship between people and space, culture and architecture. Through her work, architecture can be understood as a time based art that is inseparable from the way people perceive and use it. Bo Bardi’s architecture works like a conversation. Bo Bardi’s architecture achieves this by placing human activity at its centre, with an awareness of the cyclic relationship between the two. We can see this philosophy embodied in projects such as SECS Pompeia, which transformed an industrial drum factory into a recreational and social leisure centre through utilising the street as a vessel for public life placed at its heart. Bo Bardi’s Architecture is not static; it reveals to us architecture as a dynamic process of interactions and relationships. Bo Bardi shows us that architecture is conversational – it is in constant dialogue with its users, inhabitants and surroundings. To Bo Bardi architecture relies on our participation and the unique way we construct our experience by giving meaning as an observer - “Until man enters a building, climbs steps, and takes possession of the space in a ‘human adventure’, which develops over time, architecture This illustrates the architecture as a unique creative act that not only happens as the result of the architect’s design but also as cognitive acts fundamental to our perception and subjective experience of space. In this ‘human adventure’ as Bo Bardi calls it, architecture can be seen as an event or series of events, existing in space like a continual piece of music or perpetual performance, reliant upon performers and protagonists. Fundamental to our perception of the world, are these cognitive acts which ‘re’-present our sensory information into our subjective experience of architecture. These acts are iterative and recursive, allowing us to build a continuous picture of the world. It is like the process of design itself, I its looping, repetitive and iterative