Declarations What was said By Lina herself about Architecture "What does the word Architecture intend to mean? At first, limiting it to the art of building could seem passive and, in an even more restricted way, concern just the house construction. But Architecture is almost implicitly everything which is structure and representation, from the rocks, the skeleton, from the structure of the atom up to the appearance of the spheres that are part of the planetary system. The man made efforts, using the elements that nature gave him, in order to modify and reorganize this same nature, created architectures that, by improving themselves, spread through the world, giving origin to new architectures, from the rock to the interplanetary satellite, from the cave to the sky-scraper, from the pendulous do the cathedral." Lina Bo Bardi, Contribuição Propedêutica ao Ensino da Teoria da Arquitetura, 1957 About Lina "Educated and, therefore, free of arrogance, she seemed not to have doubts. Although, she kept asking: her method to know and invent moved from refutation to contradiction to reach the essence of poetry. She often completed a perfect scientific explanation saying she had only wanted to do 'something poetic'. From the studies of the complex systems of a project to the poetry and mastery and incorporation of advanced technologies, Lina, I am not afraid to say, was the greatest and most complete Brazilian architect at her time. And I insist in saying 'Brazilian'. She produced one of the most extraordinary urban fragments of this century. All of her projects and drawings are master pieces developed in parallel with an intense intellectual active, reflex ion and research involving graphics, theater, cinema, exhibits fitting up, interviews, seminars, lectures and, sometimes her simple presence. A chair designed by Lina is a museum. And there were many of them." Joaquim Guedes, Memories of Lina Bo Bardi, Caramelo magazine Nº 4, São Paulo, 1992. "Every artist is a clone of God. Lina brought inside herself this divine spark that transforms the creature in the creator, and transforms the art in the only language able to overcome the limits of time and space. She had an appetite for the absolute and, because of that, transfigured the forms in poems and the figures in a mirror of the beauty. In her soul, throbbed this deep intuition that, in everything and everyone, there is an indescribable harmony that she succeeded in describing for knowing the grammar of esthetics." Frei Betto, letter sent to the Institute for the documentary about Lina Bo Bardi, June 27, 1993.

Lina Bo Bardi e Pierre Verger, 1987 Marcelo Ferraz