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Bardi [neé Bo], Lina
(b Rome, 5 Dec 1914; d São Paulo, 29 March 1992). Brazilian architect of Italian birth. She graduated in architecture (1942) from the University of Rome and in 1943 was editor of the magazine Domus. In 1947 she moved to Brazil when her husband, Pietro Maria Bardi (b 1901), was invited to establish and direct the Museu de Arte de São Paulo; Lina Bardi was involved in planning the interior and designing the fittings of the museum. In 1949 she founded the art and architecture journal Habitat and was its editor until 1953, a period when it was the most influential architecture magazine in Brazil. With her husband and the architect Giancarlo Palanti (1906–77), she set up the Studio d’Arte Palma, making modern furniture that had a great impact in Brazil (for an example, see Brazil, fig. 11). She also set up the first industrial design course in Brazil (1948–51) and taught at the University of São Paulo (1954–5). In 1952 she was naturalized, and during the 1950s she designed her own house (1952) in São Paulo, an enormous new building for the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (1958; for illustration see SÃO PAULO) and the Museu de Arte Popular do Unhão (1963), Salvador, Bahia, where she restored a 19th-century building and worked on the collections. Following a period in Rome in the 1970s during the military dictatorship in Brazil, Bardi worked on a large cultural centre (1980–85) in São Paulo, renovating an old drum factory to create areas for leisure activities and including new sports facilities. In 1987 she was invited to plan the restoration of the historic centre of SALVADOR, listed as national heritage by UNESCO. Bardi’s buildings were influenced by Mies van der Rohe, particularly in the fluid articulation of spaces, and by 16th-century Portuguese military architecture in Brazil; she used materials austerely and in their natural state, whether modern or traditional. Her work is also strongly linked to that of other modern Brazilian architects by its desire to place technology at the service of architecture as a whole.
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