In a cultural factory, a popular thought: Lina Bo Bardi and the Sesc Pompéia

Abstract

This paper investigates how the ideas of popular culture and social function of architecture - formers of the architectural thinking of Lina Bo Bardi - are present in the SESC Pompeia, built from 1977 to 1986, in São Paulo. Seeking to investigate design aspects such as architectural detailing; the furniture design in different environments; and the building’s relationship to its surroundings, in order to understand how architectural choices reflected fundamental ideas held by the architect. Another aspect studied is how to establish the coexistence of diferent activities and public in the same spaces. There is, indeed, a collective experience? There have been changes over time in the use of space? In other words, thinking Sesc Pompeia as a work that characterizes a context, a historicity, the aim was to investigate how the architectural design and construction process consolidated the architect concepts.