Ways of Lina Bo Bardi: a written trajectory
Lina Bo Bardi; Salvador; NorthEast; Popular culture; Industrial Design; Daily News; Editorial.
This research work analyzes the written documentation produced by the architect Lina Bo Bardi in order to establish a dialog between her articles published in the Salvador Daily Newspaper and her work ahead of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia. 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. Lina was 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, an ideal. This research focuses on the period between 1958 and 1964, when Lina worked in Bahia and intensified her studies on Industrial Design and Popular Culture. 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 contributions to the Salvador Daily Newspaper when Lina directed the Sunday page called Chronicles of Art, History, Behavior, and Life Culture, in search of the theoretical bases that guided her work; establish a dialogue between Lina’ s theoretical and practical bases by exploring the moment of cultural effervescence Salvador experienced between the 1950s and 1960s and Lina's production during this period, when she directed the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia..