Top Quotes & Sayings by Lina Bo Bardi

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi.
Last updated on November 4, 2024.
Lina Bo Bardi

Lina Bo Bardi, born Achillina Bo, was an Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect. A prolific architect and designer, she devoted her working life, most of it spent in Brazil, to promoting the social and cultural potential of architecture and design. While she studied under radical Italian architects, she quickly became intrigued with Brazilian vernacular design and how it could influence a modern Brazilian architecture. During her lifetime it was difficult to be accepted among the local Brazilian architects, because she was both a "foreigner" and a woman.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it. — © Lina Bo Bardi
Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.
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