Lina Bo Bardi (1914-92) was one of the most prolific and visionary architects of the twentieth
century. Raised in Italy under Mussolini's Fascist regime and emigrating to Brazil after World
War II she championed the power of architecture and design to embrace everyday life. Her
boldly modernist designs range from concrete-and-glass structures like the São Paulo Museum of
Art and the culture and leisure center SESC Pompéia to furniture and jewelry. This is the first
book to examine one of the most intimate and expressive features of her life and work but one
she rarely shared with the public--drawing. Bo Bardi produced thousands of drawings in her
lifetime from picturesque landscapes drawn when she was a child to sketches made as part of
her daily routine as an architect to fanciful drawings that show different aspects of her
private life. In this beautifully illustrated book Zeuler Lima the world's leading authority
on Bo Bardi brings together a careful selection of these and other drawings many of them
never published until now. Bo Bardi drew on card stock tracing paper regular paper and
newsprint. She used pencils watercolor gouache ballpoint pens and felt-tips producing
drawings that combined surrealist elements with an eye for color and joyful forms.
