Between Art and Landscape: Roberto Burle Marx (1909-94)

Roberto Burle Marx was Brazil's most influential landscape artists and is internationally recognized as the "creator of the modern garden".
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'

Parisian photograffeur JR

The work of Parisian photographer and street artist JR

"Women are Heroes"
Here JR visits the slums of Kenya where he covered 2000m2 of rooftops with the images of the women who live there.







JR at the Tate Modern London


Rio de Janiero




London




Ile Saint-Louis, Paris

for more JR visit jr-art.net

great interview with JR here via The Guardian

art made by walking in landscapes. photographs of sculptures made along the way. walks made into text works.

"Art as a formal and holistic description of the real space and experience of landscape and its most elemental materials" Richard Long. Artist.

Cornish Slate Cross
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh 2007



Furth of Forth Mud Arc
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh 2007

England 1968

White Chapel Slate Circle
White Chapel Art Gallery London 1981



Five Paths
New Art Centre Roche Court England 2002



River Po Line
Italy 2001



Hemisphere Circle
Tokyo 1968



Six Paths
Dialogue: Richard Long / Jivya Soma Mashe
Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf 2003



Walking a Line in Peru 1972




Stone Line
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh 2007

Richard long.org

Interesting article here with Long via the Telegraph.co.uk

return of landscape

Via Topos.de
“Landscape must become the law.”

exhibition Berlin Germany - 13.03.2010 - 30.05.2010

Such was the call, made as early as 1959, by the landscape architect Walter Rossow in the face of rapidly increasing water pollution and destruction of the environment.

Fifty years later his call is more relevant than ever: The urban over-exploitation of the countryside is causing environmental problems of unimaginable magnitude world-wide - and the concepts involved are familiar: climate change, water shortage, food shortages and the disappearance of species.





Urban sustainability must be conceived in a larger, more comprehensive way. The city of the twenty-first century must be developed from the landscape. But, in this process, the landscape must be seen as more than just a supplier of material resources; it must be strengthened, too, in its significance as an aesthetic and emotional living space.

The Akademie der Künste in Berlin is placing these topics at the centre of the large, interdisciplinary exhibition Return of Landscape.









Among other subjects, the exhibition will feature a comparative juxtaposition of the world’s two most artificial cities: Las Vegas (see photo; credit: Alex S. MacLean for Akademie der Künste, 2009) and Venice.

The following offices will be presenting their work: Shlomo Aronson Landscape Architects, Jerusalem; Astoc, Cologne; RMP, Bonn; Batlle i Roig, Barcelona; Workshop: Ken Smith Landscape Architect, New York; Studio Boeri, Milan; Turenscape, Peking; Atelier Corajoud, Paris; Kiefer, Berlin; Kienle, Stuttgart; Lohrberg, Stuttgart, and Venturi, Venice.

Please visit:

Topos.de
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adk.de/landschaft

take off eh - spanning Canadian water part 3

An update from last months post...."bridges eh - spanning canadian waters part 2"
The CMLC (Calgary Municipal Land Corporation) with public consultation
has selected 3 of the 37 original proposals to move into next stage of development.

out of the 37 submissions 2 of my top 5 made the CMLC's shortlist of 3.
and the bridges are....

my pick to win
submission #29
RFR (Paris, France) and Halsall (Calgary)
This design appears to grow from the banks of the river, skipping across the surface effortlessly from shore to shore.

Submission #15
my second choice
ARUP with Falco Schmitt Architects (London, UK)

Submission #17
Buckland and Taylor LTD. (Vancouver) and Kitchell Architecture and Design (Victoria BC)

Congratulations to Victoria's
kitchell - architecture + design for making the top 3

last months post here