Burle marx

Roberto Burle Marx (August 4, 1909 – June 4, 1994) was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world-famous.

Image 1 of 1 from gallery of Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist. Roberto Burle Marx, Mineral roof garden, Banco Safra headquarters, São Paulo, 1983. Photograph © Leonardo Finotti

Happy Earth Day! I’m celebrating the day by looking back at Roberto Burle Marx’s’ Landscape Designs. Marx was a Brazilian Artist who specialized in asymmetrical designs and the inclusion of local, tropical species.

In a 2010 interview, the long-time editor of Landscape Architecture Magazine Grady Clay was asked to describe some of landscape architecture’s greatest

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Google Earth view of Roberto Burle Marx’s Gardens of the Ministry of the Army in Brasilia / Adam Nathaniel Furman on Twitter

Roberto Burle Marx. Garden Design for Beach House for Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, project, Santa Barbara, California (Site plan). 1948. Gouache on board. 50 1/4 x 27 3/4" (127.6 x 70.5 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine. SC19.1966. Architecture & Design

Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx’s 1979 design for the garden of the Clemente Gomes residence in Areias is abstract and simplistically beautiful.