LAURA BURKHALTER DESIGN STUDIO INC

/ we are an LA based, highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary, international design studio / this is our digital notebook for the things that inspire us / and a place to share visuals of projects + ideas /

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Lina Bo Bardi, Sao Paulo, 1957-1968

MASP Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo

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Museo Sao Vincente, Sao Paulo, by Lina Bo Bardi.

Model

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Lina Bo Bardi's Casa Cirell, Brazil, completed in 1957

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Lina Bo Bardi, in her "Casa do Vidro", I believe in 1944

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Lina Bo Bardi looking hot :)

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SESC Pompéia Cultural Center, Sao Paolo, Brazil - a factory complex turned into a cultural complex in 1977 by one of the hottest female modernist architects, Lina Bo Bardi. (And inevitably one of the most undervalued). Anyway, time to celebrate her!

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Lina Bo Bardi - drawing of her unrealized IV Centenario de São Paulo project.

Not only was she an amazing architect, she was an incredible painter as well!

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Walter Jack Studio did the exact wall my collaborator and friend Christine Forster had made a model of for her thesis project last year. Well, at least we can see that it was a great idea and translates beautifully into full size... 

We would love to know more about the technicalities of creating the forms in full scale... 

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The Flying Pig Cafe (a Laura Burkhalter Design Studio project completed in 2011) just got published on a super popular Korean blog :)

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Here a picture of the just completed studio bathroom on our property...

designed by Laura Burkhalter Design Studio

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Details of LBDS's latest fabric formwork tests... 

Fabric sewn by Christine Forster

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Our own first few fabric formwork tests...

Image 1: test for a sink bottom

Image 2: test for a garden faucet

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Concrete upholstery - warm and fuzzy or not?

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Concrete pillows - the perfect usable sculpture for your backyard

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"Soft concrete" - hard as concrete but soft in appearance due to it's fabric formwork...

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nice graphic house by xten architecture: naka house

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cool rehab project in Copenhagen’s Central Park...a graffiti-ridden playground has been transformed into a mirrored pavilion by Danish firm MLRP