A new MoMA exhibition analyzes the design of six countries

The new MoMa exhibition places Latin America in the modernity of the 20th century

A new MoMA exhibition looks at the design of six countries between 1940 and 1980. Some beautiful chairs tell us.
Lina Bo Bardi, the great Italian-Brazilian architect, liked to say that we all invent architecture by the mere act of climbing a staircase, entering a room, opening a door or sitting in a chair.

All of these “little gestures,” she said, along with the objects they imply, are richly endowed with meaning and memory.
We are the designers of it.

Bo Bardi, of course, was not the only one who thought this way, as Crafting Modernity, a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, makes clear.
It focuses on domestic design from six countries (Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Venezuela), produced between 1940 and 1980.
Latin America had entered a period of transformation, industrial expansion and creativity.

Throughout the region, design was institutionalized as a profession, opening new avenues, especially for women.

Modernism was the aesthetic common thread.

It fueled a drive for national identity, improved conditions for the working poor, and enabled the marriage of indigenous craftsmanship with mass production.

It became a means to celebrate the ecological diversity of the region.
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