Lina Bo Bardi
Architect, graphic and industrial designer in the areas of publishing, exhibition design, product, costume and theatrical scenography.
Pioneer of hybrid visual culture. She has a multidisciplinary profile.
Lina is Italian but Brazilian nationalized.
She was born in Rome in 1914 into a militant family of the communist party while fascism dominated Europe. This gave her an ideology that she shared both openly and in the shadows of the underground.
This context influenced her towards the struggle for freedom, which is especially evident in her work.
Bo Bardi moves to Milan, where he dedicates himself to architecture, illustration and collaborates with editorials. Until his studio is hit by a bombing in 1943.
This fact makes her more attached to her ideological position, which leads her to be part of the planning to rebuild the city once the war is over.
In 1946 she leaves Europe permanently and settles in Brazil with her husband. There she developed her most significant works. She humanized architecture by mixing art, popular culture and modernity. She created something that defined Brazilian culture in the mid-twentieth century. He still inspires Latin American architects.
Some of her most relevant works as an architect:
Glass House 1949, her first project in Brazil and her most personal. Her own house.
The house adapts to the environment with a minimal architecture.
It is currently the headquarters of the Lina Bo Bardi Institute.
Art Museum of Sao Paulo 1958, the most emblematic project and that gave him worldwide relevance.
It is more than 8 meters above the ground. The idea is to create a meeting space, to allow free pedestrian traffic and at the same time to provide shade.
One of her works as illustrator and editor of the magazine "A, Cultura de la Vitta".
Sketch and design of the magazine cover.
She had a passion for people and their culture.
She designed multiple scenographies and costumes for theater plays.
Here is a sketch that proves it.
An exhibition in Europe shows her work as a designer, where the largest collection of furniture is exhibited, with 41 pieces.
These were designed in a period of her life in which she associated with the Italian architect Gincarlo Palanti and created the "Studio dArte Palma" dedicated to the industrial design of furniture, interior design projects for stores and stands.
This aspect as a furniture designer, was quite ignored until now, that's why it is the main focus of the exhibition.
"Lina is a typical example of someone who takes a multidisciplinary approach. Her work is the perfect synthesis between innovation and preservation of cultural roots. For example, she created a series of pioneering projects with strong humanistic and anthropological connotations. Contrasts keep his designs in balance: anatomical perfection together with the imperfections of craftsmanship and minimalism juxtaposed with the most baroque sensuality", says Yashar (founder of Nilufar gallery, one of the galleries that hosted this exhibition).
The above quote describes the reasons why I admire Bo, I think it's great that she is a professional with a line of work marked by her freedom of thought and that she shows it in different disciplinary formats.
I also find her to be a very hard worker in what she is passionate about, she shows strength and power to rise again from the ashes.
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