Lina, o sublime e o efêmero: o Nordeste e a Modernidade pelas lentes do Vernáculo

The modern experience of architecture in Brazil has two main traces: the participation of foreigners and the pact between the local and the global. Thus, the modern production in Northeast Brazil is strengthened by the work of the local professionals but also by the travellers that reached those lands and reviewed the local culture by the principles of Modernity. In this context it is found Lina Bo Bardi, Italian architect that transforms the tension between the modern and the popular in the fundamental question of her work, revealing other parameters to think the architectural making and the expressions of a place. This paper talks about the practical and theoretical aspects of Lina's work, especially when it is crossed by the impact of the Brazilian Northeast vernacular patrimony, focusing on the conversation between construction systems and between temporalities, resulting in the amalgam of practices apparently antithetic as for example, the classical and the cleanness of modernity and the organic aspect of the traditional earth walls. The aim is to observe how Lina built up another view about the Northeast culture, crossing the barriers of time and space and taking the vernacular of the company of the banal and the conservative tradition.