Lina Bo Bardi
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Lina Bo Bardi (Born Achillina Bo on December 5, 1914 in Rome, Italy — Died March 20, 1992 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian modernist architect.
She began her career in the office of Giò Ponti in Milan before opening her own office. She did not have many commissions and, in 1943, her office was destroyed by aerial bombing. The event prompted her deeper involvement in the Italian Communist Party. She spent the years following the war documenting destruction across Italy, participating in the National Congress for Reconstruction. She also founded a weekly magazine, A Cultura della Vita, with Bruno Zevi.
In 1946, after marrying Pietro Maria Bardi, she moved with him to Brazil. She became a naturalized citizen in 1951. In the same year she completed her "Glass House" in the new neighborhood of Morumbi. She became famous for the ample spaces she sought to construct. The São Paulo Art Museum, of which her husband Pietro Maria Bardi was curator, was built to her basic design. And when she died she left designs for a new São Paulo City Hall and a Cultural Center for Vera Cruz.
[edit] References
- Biography at the Instituto Lina Bo e Pietro M. Bardi
- Meyer, Esther da Costa. (Winter/Spring 2002) "After the Flood". Harvard Design Magazine. No. 16
- Profile of Bardi for Exhibition at Museum of Design, Zurich
- Profile of Bardi for Exhibition at Civic Museums of Venice
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bardi, Lina Bo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bardi, Achillina Bo; Bo, Achillina;Bardi, Lina |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome, Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1992 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | São Paulo, Brazil |
