Lina Bo Bardi was born in Rome, where she graduated in architecture and arrived in Brazil in 1946.
Together with Pietro Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti, in 1948 she created the Palma Art Studio, which operated until 1950, and the Pau-Brasil Furniture Factory, which she sold to the Hauner brothers in 1951.
Between 1955 and 1959 she taught architecture at the University of São Paulo. She designed the headquarters of the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), which opened in 1968.
