Lina Bo Bardi is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Lina Bo Bardi as Italo-Brazilian architect (1914-1992).
Lina Bo Bardi was born at Rome in 1914. Her recorded nationality is Brazil. She was educated at Sapienza University of Rome.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
She worked as architect, draftsperson and illustrator.
Her affiliations include University of São Paulo and Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo.
Her name is attached above all to furniture and jewelry designs. Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
The surviving body of work includes São Paulo Museum of Art, SESC Pompéia and Glass House.
Her recorded fields of work are architecture and design.
Her work was formally recognised with the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil).
Working from Brazil shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Lina Bo Bardi died in 1992, aged 78. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Notable work: São Paulo Museum of Art
- Notable work: SESC Pompéia
- Notable work: Glass House
- Affiliated with University of São Paulo and Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo
- Educated at Sapienza University of Rome
- Worked as architect, draftsperson and illustrator
