A LETTER TO LINA Project Statement: We are here to cooperatively sustain life through the inhale and exhale of our perceived bubbles. Let us push the boundaries of climate through art, women, and Lina Bo. Thesis Statement: To say that the work of Lina Bo Bardi is significant is an understatement. Not only did Lina Bo Bardi work within a field that was male dominated, she found a way to develop a language of architecture that not only showed a mastery of the Modernist architect but brought with it a level of innovative thinking that was not addressed at the time. The work of Lina Bo Bardi still carries its voice today because of this. Her first project, The Glass House, was more than a mastering of the principles of Modernism, it was a basis for a new, innovative understanding of architecture. What becomes apparent is that while architects such as Le Corbusier opened the door of Modernism, with his principles of the 5 Points of Architecture, Lina Bo Bardi not only took a hold of this basis but fundamentally developed a new language from it. The world right now needs its boundaries pushed, its perceptions on climate, women and architecture changed, its relationship with the environment revolutionized. There needs to be a give and take within these boundaries in order for these new relationships to occur. A sustaining of life through true collaboration and design. Therefore, we are here to collaborate through the inhale and exhale of our perceived bubbles of being. Called upon to push the boundaries of climate through art, women, and In a, A Letter to Lina, we see what the makings of these agreements to change could be. Space flows freely in its definition, it can be given and taken freely under the direct agreements forged between the artists. The environment defines, is displayed, and is fostered within the spaces collaboratively built by the artists in residence. Women are given a place to freely display and honor their work. Lina Bo Bardi stops being Lina Bo Bardi and becomes Lina Bo. Her principles of art, design and building heard and understood as their own, singular contribution to architecture, not as an underscored addition to what already was. A fundamentally new way to see the world and its possibilities through a fundamentally new way of understanding collaboration, art, design and the possibilities of the environment as one.
