Ways of Lina Bo Bardi: a written trajectory
Lina Bo Bardi; idea of architecture; writings; Salvador; Northeastern.
This research work analyzes the written documentation produced by the architect Lina Bo
Bardi in order to discuss her idea of architecture from the moment she started working in
Salvador, Bahia, when she immersed in the Northeastern popular culture. Lina Bo Bardi was
an Italian architect who emigrated to Brazil in 1946, a country she chose to live and work
professionally. She is the author of a series of significant works for cultural institutions, such
as MASP, the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, SESC Pompéia, among others. An architect
who has always worked through various artistic languages, which this work aims to approach
by highlighting the written language as a way of doing architecture, often the only one
possible, and through which Lina Bo Bardi consolidated an idea of her own architecture, a
ideal. This work is conducted as follows: throughout a bibliographical review, it aims at tracing
Lina's trajectory, highlighting the role of writing in different phases of her life; examine her
writings to understand how they blend with her architecture, composing an ideology that
supports her actions; to explore the moment of cultural effervescence Salvador experienced
between the 1950s and 1960s and Lina's production during this period; and, lastly, understand
how such moment in her trajectory contributed to the consolidation of her idea of
architecture.