Roberto Burle Marx (August 4th, 1909, São Paulo - June 4th, 1994, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazillian landscape designer (besides being a painter, ecologist and naturalist) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... São Paulo (Portuguese for Saint Paul) is the capital of the state of São Paulo in southeastern Brazil. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Ipanema beach Cristo Redentor Rio de Janeiros waterfront and the Morro de Castello from the Ilha das Cobras in 1919 by Harriet Chalmers Adams A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and... In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Brazil attracted over 5 million European and Japanese immigrants. ... A landscape architect is primarily a designer of spaces, mostly landscapes, and sometimes gardens, in the field of landscape architecture. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... Ecology is the branch of science that studies the distribution and abundance of living organisms, and the interactions between organisms and their environment. ... Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as a number of distinct scientific disciplines. ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ...

Marx's first landscaping inspirations came while studying painting in Germany, where he often visited the Dahlem Botanical Gardens and first learned about Brazil's native flora. Upon returning to Brazil in 1930, he began collecting plants in and around his home.

In 1932, Burle Marx designed his first landscape for a private residence by the architects Lucio Costa and Gregory Warchavchik. In 1949 he acquired an estate in Barra de Guaratiba (just outside of Rio de Janiero) to house his growing collection of plants. This property was donated to the Brazilian government in 1985 and became a national monument. Now called Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, under the direction of IPHAN-Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional / Ministério da Cultura, it houses over 3,500 species of plants and can be reached at (21) 2410-1412. Lucio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner born in 1902 in Toulon, France. ...

Work

• Landscape design of some gardens in the public buildings of Brasília
• Copacabana-Beach park Rio de Janeiro
• Parque del Este, Caracas, Venezuela

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References

• William Howard Adams (1991). Roberto Burle Marx: The Unnatural Art of the Garden, Museum of Modern Art, New York. ISBN 0-8109-6096-6.
• S. Eliovson, R. Burle Marx (1991). The Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx, Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-160-2.
• M. Schwartz, M. I. Montero, R. Burle Marx (2001). Roberto Burle Marx, University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23290-9.
• Roberto Burle Marx (1982). A Garden is Like a Poem, World Microfilms. ISBN 1-85035-075-2.

External Links

• Roberto Berle Marx in Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Berle Marx & CIA. LTDA.
• Sitio Roberto Berle Marx contains many pictures.