Burle Marx Landscape

ブルレ・マルクスの景観 / 1930s–1994 / Style / Garden Styles

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.

Planting as color fields / Organic curves in plan / The tropical palette / Paving as graphic

Burle Marx Landscape — コパカバーナの波の舗道（CC BY-SA 2.0）Burle Marx Landscape — シチオ・ブルレ・マルクス（CC BY-SA 3.0）
コパカバーナの波の舗道（CC BY-SA 2.0） ／ シチオ・ブルレ・マルクス（CC BY-SA 3.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
the Copacabana promenade / Brasília's landscapes / his botanical expeditions

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