A painter, designer and self taught botanist, Burle Marx treated the landscape as a living work of art.
Burle Marx's tapestries, on view at Paco Imperial museum
Garden Design Seanz Pena Square, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1948
Garden Design Plan, Duque de Caxias Square Rio de Janeiro 1948
Site Plan of Ibrirapuera Park Project, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1953
Detail 5, Ibrirapuera Park Project, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1953
Just a few of Burle Marx's realized works
Brazil's Civic Square
Terrace garden rio de Janeiro
Brazil
A passionate proponent of Brazillian native flora and fauna Burle Marx is also recognized for his discovery of some thirteen plants that bear his name, see my 5 selected below.
Heliconia hirsuta 'Burle Marx'
Calathea burle-marxii
Neoregelia burle-marxii
Philodendron 'Burle-Marx'
Begonia 'Burle Marx'
Please credit the images of Brazil's Civic Square as photo@leonardofinotti.com
ReplyDeleteThe right name of the square is Praça dos Cristais and the authors were Roberto Burle Marx + Haruyoshi Ono + José Tabacow
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Gustavo Hiriart / Leonardo Finotti Studio
Thank you for this post. My wife used the information in her midterm project. Burle Marks was landscape genius.
ReplyDeleteThe picture of that round park saying "Brazil".. can anybody tell me the name of this park?
ReplyDeleteThat picture is actually the rotunda in Hollywood Florida.
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