Lina Bo Bardi

摘要

One of the many colourful characters with whom Lina Bo Bardi had to deal in the course of her colourful life was Juracy Magalhaes: army general, president of Brazil's national oil company, and eventually successful candidate for the governorship of the state of Bahia. He also played an editorial role in a newspaper to which Bo Bardi contributed. How's that for conflicts of interest? It makes the multiple hat-wearers of modern British architectural politics look like rank amateurs. Magalhaes embodies the tangled networks that Bo Bardi had to negotiate and manipulate to achieve her many and varied works, and it is one of the strengths of Lima's careful and factual biography of her that figures like this are given their place.