Word: bardi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PIETRO MARIA BARDI Director...
Designed by Architect Lina Bo (who is Director Bardi's ex-wife), the building is in effect a box suspended from four giant concrete piles spanned by huge concrete beams. This construction allows for column-free interiors where the paintings are supported in airy space on what amounts to a series of transparent plastic easels...
Quick Swoop. He hired Italian-born Pietro Maria Bardi as his artistic guide and installed him also as director of the Sao Paulo Art Museum-then a museum in name only, except in Chatô's imagination. As chief of some 30-odd newspapers, 19 magazines, 22 radio and 15 TV stations. Chatô had plenty of money of his own. But not even that kind of tycoon can command enough millions to assemble an art collection of the scope Chatô had in mind. So Chatô did not scruple to use his press facilities to extract...