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Roberto Burle Marx (August 4, 1909 – June 4, 1994) was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world-famous.
The park was designed by Roberto Burle Marx.It is said that it was the last work undertaken by the Brazilian architect. [1] When the park was designed, the aim was to "leave the world a little more sensitive and a little more educated to the importance of nature".
The Casa de Taipa e Pilão is expected to assume new functions linked to culture and education and host an exhibition area detailing the rammed earth construction process and a historical record of the Burle Marx Park, with maps, plans and images related to the work carried out by landscape architects Rosa Kliass and Roberto Burle Marx. [6] [5]
It was designed by a team composed of Lucio Costa (future designer of the master plan of Brazil's modernist capital Brasília), along with Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Ernani Vasconcellos, Carlos Leão, Jorge Machado Moreira, and Roberto Burle Marx. Oscar Niemeyer, who became Brazil's best-known architect later, had a role as an intern in Costa's office.
Ibirapuera Park was the first metropolitan park in São Paulo, [1] designed along the lines of other great English landscape gardens built in the 20th century in major cities around the globe, but inspired on modern drafts from the landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. [5]
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx: Rio de Janeiro: 2021 1620; ii, iv (cultural) The estate in Barra de Guaratiba, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, belonged to the architect and naturalist Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994). As a landscape designer, Burle Marx was experimenting with the use of native tropical plants in modernist architecture.
The park's inauguration took place under the government of President Romulo Betancourt on January 19, 1961 [8] under the May 1960 Decree No. 443 [9] and was designed by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx and associates Fernando Tabora and John Stoddart. [10] When first opened the park was designed to receive about 6,000 visitors ...
Flamengo Park was an urban planning project on the coast of Rio under the direction of Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) in the 1950s and 1960s. [2] The Modernist concrete museum building, designed by Affonso Eduardo Reidy (1909-1964), was completed in 1955. The museum's landmark Modernist gardens were designed by Burle Marx. [2] [3]