This essential book unravels the link between regional culture, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian
architect Lina Bo Bardi’s late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury
as sustainability. The edited book charts how Lina Bo Bardi “invented” her own version of sustainability, introduced this concept through her landscape and adaptive reuse designs and through
ideas about cross-cultures in Brazil. The book offers a critical reflection, exploration and demonstration of the importance of adaptive reuse in the landscape and related themes for
researchers and provides researchers and students new material on sustainability for further study.
