Lina Bo Bardi - Material Ideologies art as well as ideas

as well as ideas

From small projects to a gigantic housing block

more A language dies bringing with it a precise knowledge of the environment that it has named for centuries: plants

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Lina Bo Bardi - Material Ideologies art as well as ideasLina Bo Bardi (19141992) is renowned for her boldly modernist designs like the So Paulo Museum of Art and the culture and leisure center SESC Pompia. An artist, architect, designer, writer, and activist, she was a tireless champion for local craft and materials. Her democratic designs were inclusive and stood as an open invitation to those typically excluded from elitist institutions, embodying an aesthetic that stood out among the modernist movement