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Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users. About Contact Submit Advertise. Change country. Log out. Bela Vista, Brazil. Share Share Facebook. About this office. Lina Bo Bardi. Edson Elito. Products Steel Concrete Brick. Published on September 11, Did you know? The event prompted her deeper involvement in the Italian Communist Party. In , Domus commissioned Bo Bardi to travel around Italy with Carlo Pagani and photographer Federico Patellani to document and evaluate the situation of the destroyed country.

Bo Bardi took part in the First National Meeting for Reconstruction in Milan, alerting people to the indifference of public opinion on the subject, which for her covered both the physical and moral reconstruction of the country.

In Brazil, Bo Bardi expanded his ideas influenced by a recent and overflowing culture different from the European situation. Along with her husband, they decided to live in Rio de Janeiro, delighted with the nature of the city and its modernist buildings, like the current Gustavo Capanema Palace, known as the Ministry of Education and Culture, designed by Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, Roberto Burle Marx and a group of young Brazilian architects.

Pietro Bardi was commissioned by a museum from Sao Paulo city where they established their permanent residence. There they began a collection of Brazilian popular art its main influence and his work took on the dimension of the dialogue between the modern and the Popular.

Bo Bardi spoke of a space to be built by living people, an unfinished space that would be completed by the popular and everyday use. Our selection. Lina Bo Bardi Lina Bo Bardi.

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When the police raids began, we began to get worried, so I went to talk with Lina. She said: "I'm an architect! I can't go through walls! I'm not a witch! All I can do with walls is break them down. Then she designed a very nice project in that area. On the right, the large glazed surface with the flower bed in which the tree that grows outside is planted. Domus : What is your view on Lina's project for the Oficina?

She always put water and fire in the shows. We have ours, too. It was this tree that won the fight, because it represented our vanguard; this tree was the first thing to invade the land next door, understand? Domus : From the War of Canudos for the destitute settlers of the Northeast to the struggles against Silvio Santos, the owner of a very important TV network.

Thirty years spent punching holes in the walls, just like a real family feud. After the Ministry of the Environment ruled in our favour, they threw up a concrete barricade to block our access to the grounds. It has been a year struggle to keep our neighbours from building first a shopping centre, which would have destroyed this entire window, and then a series of apartment towers.

The surrounding area was completely developed; there even used to be two houses protected by the cultural heritage commission and an age-old synagogue. This is where the Teatro Oficina company sets up temporary structures to attract large audiences to its shows. Later those same housing blocks would be swept away by real-estate speculators.

We started on the first projects with people who were semi-literate. By day, they worked in the shipyards and in the evenings they worked with us, teaching us the Northeastern art of ciranda rhythms, and about their typical cuisine This was, rightfully, the influence of the theatre on urbanisation.

In came the most violent period of the Brazilian military dictatorship, and the members either left the group or went into exile. During the slow and gradual reestablishment of Brazil's democracy, the group struggled to reopen and rebuild their space according to a radical architectural project by Lina Bo Bardi.