Roberto Burle Marx

Author : Jens Hoffmann,Claudia J. Nahson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300212150

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Roberto Burle Marx by Jens Hoffmann,Claudia J. Nahson Pdf

An unprecedented look at the wide-ranging artistic work of one of the 20th century's most significant landscape architects The modernist parks and gardens of Brazilian landscape architect and garden designer Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) earned him awards, widespread acclaim, and international fame. Over a 60-year career, he designed more than 2,000 gardens worldwide, the most famous of which are those he created in collaboration with the architect Oscar Niemeyer for Brasília. Although he is best known for his landscape work, Burle Marx was a prolific artist in a variety of media, and his larger body of work--which includes paintings, drawings, tile mosaics, sculpture, textile design, jewelry, theater costumes, and more--is critical to understanding his importance as a modernist. An avid horticulturalist, he was among the first to denounce deforestation in the Amazon region; he also discovered over thirty species of Brazilian flora, which bear his name. This beautifully illustrated and groundbreaking publication covers the full range of Burle Marx's artistic output, as well as his remarkable home, an abandoned estate that he transformed into his office, workshop, gallery, and living space. The enduring influence of Burle Marx's work is also explored through interviews with seven contemporary artists: Juan Araujo, Paloma Bosquê, Dominique González-Foerster, Luisa Lambri, Arto Lindsay, Nick Mauss, and Beatriz Milhazes. These artists exemplify the extent to which his work continues to be a source of inspiration.

Author : Gareth Doherty
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037783796

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Roberto Burle Marx Lectures by Gareth Doherty Pdf

Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) remains one of the leading landscape architects ever. The significance of his landscape design lies in his use of abstract shapes that rarely employ symmetry, and his use of tropical, mainly Brazilian, flora. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx's own words have been published. This book of previously unpublished lectures fills this void. The lectures, delivered on international speaking tours, address topics such as: "The Garden as an Art in Living," "Gardens and Ecology," and "The Problem of Garden Lighting." Their timely publication helps shed light on Burle Marx's distinctive style and ethos of landscape as a way of life.

Author : Marta Iris Montero,Roberto Burle Marx
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520232907

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Roberto Burle Marx by Marta Iris Montero,Roberto Burle Marx Pdf

Roberto Burle Marx was one of the most influential landscape and garden designers of the 20th century. This book presents 26 projects in plans, photographs and Burle Marx's own paintings. The introduction considers his life, ideas and work.

Author : William Howard Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Gardens
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007126147

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Roberto Burle Marx by William Howard Adams Pdf

Author : Lauro Cavalcanti,Farès El-Dahdah,Francis Rambert
Publisher : ACTAR Publishers
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788492861675

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Roberto Burle Marx by Lauro Cavalcanti,Farès El-Dahdah,Francis Rambert Pdf

Roberto Burle Marx (Sao Paulo, 1909-Rio de Janeiro, 1994) is known as a landscape architect, but also as a painter, botanist, gardener, chef and jewellery designer. He considered the garden to be one of the fine arts, as the adaptation of the biome to civilisation's natural requirements." This book introduces the realm of the full sensory experience. Burle Marx's work with plants becomes highly pictorial-everything is drawn, coloured and constructed. In this symbiosis between aesthetics and botany, Burle Marx is the master of both species and spaces. His work is the embodiment of the "nature-city," a concept developed from the garden cities of the late 19th century, which has become compromised in the 21st century due to the compact city model. This new publication focuses on Burle Marx's scientific interest in the landscape and his relationship with the environment. Concepts that continue to be of major significance in contemporary landscape architecture, such as ecology, garden as an art form and landscape design in the urban structure, are some of the subjects the book deals with. The visual information of the book is complemented by the texts by Fares El-Dahdah, Francis Rambert, Jacques Leenhardt, Jose Tabacow, Lelia Coelho Frota, Andre Correa do Lago, Dorothee Imbert, Valerie Fraser and Gilles Clement.

Author : Rossana Vaccarino
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1568982259

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Roberto Burle Marx by Rossana Vaccarino Pdf

Set against the backdrop of deteriorating living conditions for hundreds of millions of people in developing and debtor countries, this volume concentrates on the structural adjustment policies designed to facilitate debt repayment and to stabilize indebted economies and the effects these policies have on the human rights of affected peoples. Conducted by contributors from various disciplines, this analysis provides distinctive insights into the relationship between international economic decisions and human welfare. The volume begins with general chapters on the issue of world debt; the various perceptions of debtors and creditors and the general consequences of the crisis. The specifics of the right to development are presented along with an explanation of and a rationale for this particular project on debt and human rights. The social, political, and economic consequences of the debt crisis and of the adjustment policies designed to alleviate it are presented by academic analysts as well as economists involved in dealing with poverty and equity issues at the international financial agencies. The book concludes with contributions from NGO representatives. These chapters discuss policy change and popular participation. The complex issues of debt and international economics are examined from a variety of perspectives. World Debt and the Human Condition's unifying element is a shared concern for the advancement of human dignity and the protection of the basic human rights of all those affected by the current international debt crisis and by current international economic policies and development strategies.

Author : Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781477327609

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Depositions by Catherine Seavitt Nordenson Pdf

Presenting the first English translation of Burle Marx's "depositions," this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country's military dictatorship.

Author : Roberto Silva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0500512868

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New Brazilian Gardens by Roberto Silva Pdf

An inspirational and insightful look at contemporary Brazilian garden design and the influence of famed designer Roberto Burle Marx. Brazilian Roberto Burle Marx was indisputably one of the greatest garden and landscape architects of the twentieth century. His projects, almost all of which were in his native country and highlighted its rich local flora, influenced gardens and landscapesand other design disciplinesaround the world. Given the richness of Brazil's great tradition of modernism and the lushness of its tropical landscape, it is perhaps only because of its distance that so little is known about contemporary gardening thereuntil now. Presenting over thirty new gardens and landscapes located across the country, from the coast to the hills, from the cities to the jungle, New Brazilian Gardens offers an exciting overview of current practice by designers who are hardly known outside its borders. The gardens are grouped into four sections: Water, Planting, Abstraction, and Sculpture. Each project is presented in detail, with descriptions, plans (including plant lists), and photographs. An introduction considers the evolution of the Brazilian garden since the Colonial period and examines Burle Marx's influence in the light of current trends. 267 color illustrations.

Author : Sima Eliovson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 0881921602

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The Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx by Sima Eliovson Pdf

Author : Jonás Romo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692160574

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Emotional Landscapes by Jonás Romo Pdf

Edited by Felipe Rocha, Leo Porto and Jonás Romo. Emotional Landscapes is a collection of photographs of plants, gardens and designs of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. These photographs were taken between 2011 and 2017 by Jonás Romo.¿

Author : Carrie Rebora Barrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art, Brazilian
ISBN : 0893279560

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Brazilian Modern by Carrie Rebora Barrett Pdf

Author : Peter Walker,Melanie Louise Simo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262731169

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Invisible Gardens by Peter Walker,Melanie Louise Simo Pdf

Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modern aesthetic. The major protagonists include Thomas Church, Roberto Burle Marx, Isamu Noguchi, Luis Barragan, Daniel Urban Kiley, Stanley White, Hideo Sasaki, Ian McHarg, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo. They were the pioneers of a new profession in America, the first to offer alternatives to the historic landscape and the park tradition, as well as to the suburban sprawl and other unplanned developments of twentieth-century cities and institutions. The work is described against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the Second World War, the postwar recovery, American corporate expansion, and the environmental revolution. The authors look at unbuilt schemes as well as actual gardens, ranging from tiny backyards and play spaces to urban plazas and corporate villas. Some of the projects discussed already occupy a canonical position in modern landscape architecture; others deserve a similar place but are less well known. The result is a record of landscape architecture's cultural contribution - as distinctly different in history, intent, and procedure from its sister fields of architecture and planning - during the years when it was acquiring professional status and struggling to define a modernist aesthetic out of the startling changes in postwar America.

Author : Julian Raxworthy
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262547123

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Overgrown by Julian Raxworthy Pdf

A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson. As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden development; landscape architects should leave the office and go into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated way. Raxworthy proposes a new practice for working with plant material that he terms “the viridic” (after “the tectonic” in architecture), from the Latin word for green, with its associations of spring and growth. He builds his argument for the viridic through six generously illustrated case studies of gardens that range from “formal” to “informal” approaches—from a sixteenth-century French Renaissance water garden to a Scottish poet-scientist's “marginal” garden, barely differentiated from nature. Raxworthy argues that landscape architectural practice itself needs to be “gardened,” brought back into the field. He offers a “Manifesto for the Viridic” that casts designers and plants as vegetal partners in a renewed practice of landscape gardening.

Author : William Howard Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015024808993

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Roberto Burle Marx by William Howard Adams Pdf

Author : Raymond Jungles
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781580934404

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The Cultivated Wild by Raymond Jungles Pdf

A long-awaited second book from the Miami-based landscape architect lauded by the Wall Street Journal for “dreaming up dense, thickly forested canopies that give way to modern high rises and million-dollar residences.” Color and texture burst forth at every turn in gardens by landscape architect Raymond Jungles. Sculptural bromeliads, swaying palms, delicate epiphytes, and vibrant orchids combine to immerse visitors in rich, lush environments that captivate the eye with layer upon layer of interest. Taking cues first from a site’s topography and conditions, Jungles combines tapestries of plants with unique water elements that enhance what nature has offered—swaths of grasses and succulents direct the eye toward unspeakably romantic Caribbean vistas, intriguingly pitted and mossy oolitic limestone monoliths create trickling waterfalls and hidden grottoes, and innovative combinations of native trees surround sinuous and calming infinity pools. The Cultivated Wild shows Jungles expanding to such diverse locales as Big Timber, Montana; Monterrey, Mexico; St. Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies; Abacos, Bahamas; and even the temporary Brazilian Modern Orchid Show for the New York Botanical Garden—as well as responding creatively to sites unique to his adopted hometown: rooftop gardens and pools including the penthouse Sky Garden atop the now-iconic Herzog & de Meuron–designed parking garage at 1111 Lincoln Road, along with its famous pedestrian promenade. Jungles presents 21 gardens here in glorious full color, many accompanied by highly personal hand-drawn plans, general and thumbnail plans, sections, sketches, and design details that reveal the creative process. Packed with inspiration for gardeners in warm zones and those interested in creating subtropical gardens of their own, The Cultivated Wild reveals a firm working at the height of its talents.