Burle Marx Landscape vs Emotional Architecture
ブルレ・マルクスの景観 / 情感の建築
Burle Marx Landscape comes from Garden Styles and Emotional Architecture from Modern Architecture. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Burle Marx Landscape
The inventor of modernist landscape, massing Brazilian tropical plants in color fields like abstract painting. As the Copacabana wave pavement shows, he designed the ground as one graphic.
Emotional Architecture
Building that raises unbroken walls as sculptural mass and works on feeling through color, direct sun and stillness alone. Goeritz gave it the name in the 1953 manifesto he wrote for El Eco, against the functionalism of his day.
| Burle Marx Landscape | Emotional Architecture | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1930s–1994 | 1953- |
| Family | Garden Styles | Modern Architecture |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Planting as color fields / Organic curves in plan / The tropical palette / Paving as graphic | A single large wall left without windows / Surfaces painted through in one flat color / Planes of shadow cast by direct sun / Mass read as sculpture rather than as building |
| Best used for | Designing a plaza or roof plane as one picture read from above · Making leaf form and color contrast the subject with tropical species | Giving a white modern building strong feeling through local color and light · Making stillness in a hot climate house with courtyards and water |
| Type | One species per large block, planes told apart by leaf and color | Sink signage into the wall color and let shadow make it readable |
| Composition | Curves divide the plane, straight lines kept to paving edges | Close the outside with thick walls, opening only to courtyard and water |
| Material | The figure drawn in stone paving, water used as empty space | Rough plaster in one vivid color, with the hour's light calculated in |
| Caution | Drawing the curves as decoration while ignoring growth rates lets the blocks break down within years and the color edges go muddy. | Painting walls in vivid color without designing openings and shadow makes the color glare evenly, giving loudness instead of the intended stillness. |