This documentary surveys Lina Bo Bardi’s architectural oeuvre, via an extensive set of interviews with colleagues and friends chronicling her professional and private life. Precise Poetry: Lina Bo Bardi’s Architecture – Creating Poetry Through Architectural Precision is a cinematic journey through her most important architectural projects in São Paulo and Salvador da Bahia. The film also poses the question of what remains of a person in the work they leave behind?

The screening is hosted on the occasion of Mudam’s exhibition Leonor Antunes. joints, voids and gaps which draws inspiration from the work of various architects including Lina Bo Bardi, whose formal languages Antunes employs as encoded narratives of tradition embraced by modernism.

Precise Poetry: Lina Bo Bardi’s Architecture – Creating Poetry Through Architectural Precision (2013)
Director: Belinda Rukschcio

Biography
Lina Bo Bardi (b. 1914, Rome – d.1992, São Paulo) was an Italian-born Brazilian architect, furniture designer, set designer, and journalist whose work combines a Modernist sensitivity with a profound commitment to social responsibility. After graduating in architecture in Rome, she began her career in Gio Ponti's studio in Milan. When Bo Bardi lost her studio to an aerial bombardment in 1943 she became an activist of the Italian Communist Party, subsequently moved to Brazil. Her iconic architectural projects include the Glass House, built in 1951 in Morumbi, São Paulo, Brasil, São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) designed in 1968, the SESC Pompeia Factory built in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1977–86 and the Casa do Benin designed in Salvador de Bahia in 1988.