Building Brazilian Modernism
Wednesday 26 March 2025 6.30 - 8pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre | Burlington Gardens & digital livestream
Carla Juaçaba, Jane Issler Hall and Noemi Blager discuss the design of 'Brasil! Brasil!' and the complicated legacy of modernism in Brazilian architecture today.
Explore the behind-the-scenes story of the design of Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, with the pioneering Brazilian architect Carla Juaçaba, and discover the ways she considers modernism in her international practice. Delve deeper into the history of modernism in Brazil with Jane Issler Hall, investigating how icons like Lina Bo Bardi are viewed by contemporary practitioners looking to change the way architecture is made today. Following short lectures by both speakers, they will be joined in conversation by Noemi Blager, architect and curator of Lina Bo Bardi: Together, and A Lot With Little.
Carla Juaçaba founded her independent practice in Rio de Janeiro in 2000. She was recipient of the ArcVision Women and Architecture prize, launched in 2013, and the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award 2018. She also designed the striking Pavilion Humanidade 2012 for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012.
Jane Issler Hall is the inaugural recipient of the British Council Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship (2013) and founding member of the architecture collective, Assemble RA, who won the Turner Prize in 2015 for their work in Granby, Liverpool. She completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art, London (2018) where her research looked at the legacy of modernist architects working in both Brazil and the UK.
Noemí Blager is a London-based architect and curator with a career spanning architecture, design and cultural curation. After graduating from the University of Buenos Aires, she worked on public and private projects in Barcelona before moving to London in 1994. Her curatorial work includes Lina Bo Bardi: Together (2012–2016), an internationally touring exhibition inspired by the socially driven legacy of the Italo-Brazilian architect, and A Lot With Little, which addresses climate change and the social impact of architecture.
Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
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