Habitat: Lina Bo Bardi

$29.98 at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Lina Bo Bardi is regarded as one of the most important architects in Brazil’s history. Beginning her career as a modernist architect in Rome, Bo Bardi and her husband emigrated to Brazil following the end of World War II. Bo Bardi quickly resumed her practice in her adopted homeland with architecture that was both modern and firmly rooted in the culture of Brazil. In 1951 she designed “Casa de Vidro” (“Glass House”), her first built work, where she and her husband would live for the rest of their lives. She…