1968 · São Paulo, Brazil

São Paulo Museum of Art

A museum whose glass gallery is suspended from red beams, leaving an urban plaza open below.

Cantilevered long-span construction creates the image of a floating gallery.

Lina Bo Bardi’s ideas about public life and exhibition are expressed directly in the form.

It is an icon of South American modernism.

Brazilian modernism

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