Precise Poetry: Lina Bo Bardi's Architecture Creating Poetry Through Architectural Precision
A film about the famous Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. This cinematic journey through her most important architectural projects in Sao Paulo and Salvador da Bahia poses the question of what remains of a person in the work they leave behind.
Audience prize by Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa 2014.
Running Time
54 mins
Year
2013
Kanopy ID
1439545
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