A garden is like a poem / [presented by] Roberto Burle Marx.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Burle Marx, Roberto, 1909-1994, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture--Brazil.

Landscape architecture.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (30 minutes)): sound, color

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1982.

Summary:

The late Roberto Burle Marx was the first Brazilian ever to become a landscape architect, a career suggested to him while he was still an art student in Rio. While previously studying painting in Berlin in 1928, he had been enthralled by the exotic Brazilian plants he found in Dahlem Botanical Gardens, and he immediately started to plant native plants in the family garden on his return to Rio. His first commission for a garden design came from Lucio Costa and this led to his working on the gardens of the famous Ministry of Education building in Rio by Le Corbusier, Niemeyer, et al., and then to the job of creating public gardens in Pernambuco - by which time he had established a completely new approach to landscape design, soon to become world famous, celebrating the glories of the exotic Brazilian flora. He created one park after another, each more beautiful than the last, while he continued to paint, draw, sculpt, make jewellery and sing, each art form inspiring the others. To make a garden is an art, he says, you have not only to know the plants, but to understand the landscape and to organise nature on the basis of aesthetic laws. A garden is like a poem or like music and must be constructed as such, with crescendos and dramatic moments, but with simplicity and density, and the plants used must be native to the locality. Not always able to find the plants he needed, he established his own nursery to multiply the precious specimens he collected, as part of his fight to ensure the survival of Brazilian flora.

Contents:

Roberto Burle Marx With His Paintings In The Library Of His Home Sitio Santo Antonio Da Bica, Rio De Janeiro State, 1981

Brazilian Plant

Drawing For RBM's First Public Garden, Pernambuco, 1935 (From "Tropical Gardens Of Burle Marx" By Pietro Maria Bardi, Architectural Press, 1964)

Carlos Somlo Residence Garden, Teresopolis, Rio De Janeiro State

Alberto Kronsforth Residence Garden, Teresopolis, Rio De Janeiro State

Trees In A Clearing

Cândido Guinle De Paula Machado Residence Garden, Rio De Janeiro State

Carvalho Clima Garden

Parque Del Este, Caracas, Venezuela

Odette Monteiro Residence Garden, Petropolis, Rio De Janeiro State

Nininha Magalhaes Lins Residence Garden, Rio De Janeiro

Flamengo Beach Park, Rio De Janeiro

Copacabana, Avenida Atlântica, Rio De Janeiro. Mosaic Pavements

Foreign Ministry Water Garden, Brasilia

Patio Garden At UNESCO Building, Paris

Palm Trees

Roberto Burle Marx's Garden At Sitio Santo António Da Bica

Roberto Burle Marx's Garden At Sitio Santo António Da Bica. Nursery Garden

Pseudobombax Ellipticum Plant From Roberto Burle Marx's Nursery Garden At Sitio Santo António Da Bica.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 22, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.