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.

Burle Marx Landscape — Wave pavement at Copacabana (CC BY-SA 2.0) · © Andréa Farias Farias — Wave pavement at Copacabana (CC BY-SA 2.0) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · © Andréa Farias Farias

Burle Marx Landscape — Sítio Burle Marx (CC BY-SA 3.0) · © Halley Pacheco de Oliveira — Sítio Burle Marx (CC BY-SA 3.0) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · © Halley Pacheco de Oliveira

Burle Marx Landscape — Water garden of the Itamaraty Palace, Roberto Burle Marx — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Boaventuravinicius — Water garden of the Itamaraty Palace, Roberto Burle Marx — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Boaventuravinicius

At a glance

Visual cues

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

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

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Dictionary entry

Type: One species per large block, planes told apart by leaf and color
Composition: Curves divide the plane, straight lines kept to paving edges
Material: The figure drawn in stone paving, water used as empty space
Caution: Drawing the curves as decoration while ignoring growth rates lets the blocks break down within years and the color edges go muddy.
Further study: the Copacabana promenade / Brasília's landscapes / his botanical expeditions

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Emotional Architecture (情感の建築)Shared effects: Exhilaration.Compare Burle Marx Landscape and Emotional Architecture
Naturalistic Planting (自然主義プランティング)Same Garden Styles lineage.Compare Burle Marx Landscape and Naturalistic Planting

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