Lina Bo Bardi [Rome, 1914-São Paulo, 1992], graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Rome in 1940, was part of the resistance against the German occupation during World War II, he worked in Milan with Gio Ponti, and he directed the magazine Domus. In 1946, married to Pietro Maria Bardi, he went to Brazil and settled in São Paulo the following year. Its diversified activity which involves theater, cinema, cultural production, preservation of heritage, magazine publishing, organization of museums, graphic design and furniture series, started search of Brazilian roots. It projected the Bardis (1949), the MASP (1957) and the SESC Recreation Center (1977). In Salvador, he designed and directed the Museum of Modern Art (1959), and participated in the project of urban preservation of its historic center.