Lina Bo Bardi   Brazil   Conceived as a pilot project, the Ladeira da Misericordia scheme gathers a series of building solutions that were to guide the recovery works of other decaying structures in the historic center of Salvador, Bahia. The site, comprising five properties

Lina Bo Bardi   Brazil   Planned by the ethnographer Pierre Verger, the cultural project of Casa do Benin is the result of a bilateral agreement to establish ties between Salvador and the Republic of Benin – where most of the slaves from Bahia came from –, by building a comm

Lina Bo Bardi   Brazil   When Lina Bo Bardi visited the old metal barrel factory in the working class district of Pompéia with plans to build a sports and culture center, the space had already been occupied spontaneously by neighbors who spent the weekends amidst the warehou