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Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas : Parque del Este, 1956-1961 / Anita Berrizbeitia.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection SB470.B87 B47 2005
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LIBRA SB470.B87 B47 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berrizbeitia, Anita.
- Series:
- Penn studies in landscape architecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burle Marx, Roberto, 1909-1994.
- Burle Marx, Roberto.
- Landscape architects--Venezuela--Caracas.
- Landscape architects.
- Landscape architecture--Venezuela--Caracas.
- Landscape architecture.
- Parque del Este (Caracas, Venezuela).
- Venezuela--Caracas.
- Penn Provenance:
- Atkin, Tony (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 120 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- "This wide-ranging study of a single major work, a 200-acre public park in Caracas . . ., places Burle Marx within the context of a Latin American intellectual and creative renaissance nurtured by European modernism but responsive to the distinctive character of local and regional history, politics, economics (particularly the transition from agriculture to oil production), and culture."--
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [117]-120) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812238044
- OCLC:
- 54392122
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