Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A Search for Living Architecture examines the surprising but compelling synergy in the visionary building and design of these two midcentury architects. An unprecedented exploration, this study brings together their innovative approaches to four iconic houses, which also found expression in their forniture, public buildings, and urban design. As immigrant to the Americas from Europe who moved to what at the time were newly developing regions, their personal and professional odysseys are repredentative of the emergence of Sao Paulo and Southern California as architectural and cultural laboratories that embraced social and environmental contexts. Frey and Bo Bardi not only expanded the meaning and practice of midcentiry modernist structures; they shared the belief that architecture is more than a wway to create singular designs based in aesthetic principles. It is a way to connect people, nature, building, and living.
