Posicao, Contexto e Traducao – As cartas de Lina Bo Bardi e Bruno Zevi

This paper revisits and analyses the nuances present in the correspondence between Bruno Zevi and Lina Bo Bardi, initiated in 1945 and until their final exchanges in 1974.Both Italians, Zevi and Lina, separated by the Atlantic, kept an epistolary friendship in which they shared perspectives on architecture.Even amidst disagreements, respectful dialogue prevailed.Shortly before the inauguration of Braslia, architectural critic Bruno Zevi harshly criticized the architecture that Brazilians considered the most modern in the country.Zevi described the new capital, inaugurated in 1960, as "a Kafkaesque city, a bureaucrat's paradise."Lina Bo Bardi, the Italian architect who had been living in Brazil for 14 years, responded in a letter to her friend Bruno Zevi, agreeing partially: "Braslia is poor, lunar, and desperately miserable, but it reflects the reality of a country, and Braslia cannot be judged according to a pre-established and academic scheme of cultural formalism."In their dialogues, conveyed through private letters or others selected for publication in architectural magazines edited by Bruno Zevi, Lina occupied a position of privileged knowledge, possessing experience with both the European academic formalism and the social context of another culture, the Brazilian one.It was through her in-between position that she was able to serve as a cultural translator for her Italian friend,