{"id":12958,"date":"2015-03-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/lina-bo-bardi\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:29:02","slug":"lina-bo-bardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/practice\/details\/lina-bo-bardi\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Brazil’s Modernist Maven, Lina Bo Bardi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Achillina Bo was born in Rome in 1914, the same year that Le Corbusier published his Maison Dom-Ino. She worked for designers in Italy, including Carlo Pagani, before founding her own practice in 1932. After World War II destroyed Europe, it was Domus<\/i> magazine that sent her out to survey the destruction of the built environment. <\/p>\n

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Image via Lina Bo Bardi Together<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

She would eventually marry curator Pietro Maria Bardi, whose last name combined with hers to create one of the better names in architectural history. Lina Bo Bardi and her work are a story that beautifully parallels European modernism as it made its way across the Atlantic, down to Latin America \u2014 specifically, in Brazil.<\/p>\n