By coincidence, while the London Architecture Festival takes place across the city in June, Isaac Julien is celebrating the work of Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) with lively colourful photographs and a video installation at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London.

Lina Bo Bardi started her career in Rome, then Milan, before moving to Sao Paolo in 1946 where she embraced the Modernist style evident in buildings such the home for herself and her husband Pietro Maria Bardi, the Glass House, the Sao Paolo Museum of Art, the Solar do Unhão in Salvador and the Centro de Lazer Fábrica da Pompéia, becoming one of Brazil’s most notable architects of her era.

Within the dark old warehouse space upstairs, nine huge screens stand in procession, with changing images swirling around like Lina Bo Bardi’s architecture, set to music by the German-Spanish composer Maria de Alvear in ‘Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement’, while downstairs huge photographs show many of her architectural achievements, some viewed through flowing jig-saw shaped frames, the most impressive being a swirling dancer in front of a swirling staircase in the Museo de Arte Moderna de Bahia created using traditional techniques with no screws or nails, showing that, while Lina Bo Bardi was modernist, she was also connected into old traditions and building techniques, bridging old and modern cultures.