Title: Roberto Burle Marx :
Authors: Burle Marx, Roberto,; Cavalcanti, Lauro.; El-Dahdah, Farès.; Rambert, Francis.; Finotti, Leonardo.; Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, France)
Date: 2011
Publisher: Cite de l'architecture & du patrimoine/ Institut francais d'architecture ;
Physical description: 344 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 30 cm
Language: English
LC classification: S
Contents: Roberto Burle Marx the performance of the unstable / Lauro Cavalcanti -- Unstable landscapes / Fares El-Dahdah -- Concepts of composition in landscape architecture / Roberto Burle Marx -- From modernism to ecology / Jacques Leenhardt -- The science of perception / Jose Tabacow -- Bifurcations / Lars Lerup -- The garden as art form / Roberto Burle Marx -- A planetary modernist / Lelia Coelho Frota -- Three private gardens / Andre Correa Do Lago -- Landscape architecture in the city / Roberto Burle Marx -- Parterres en l'air: Roberto Burle Marx and the modernist roof garden / Dorothee Imbert -- Cannibalizing le corbusier: the MES gardens / Valerie Fraser -- Insights into a contemporary approach -- An aesthete between species and spaces / Francis Rambert -- Heritage and complicities: conversation with Gilles Clement -- In praise of a plant amateur: interview to Patrick Blanc.
Notes: "Based on the exhibition catalogue "Roberto Burle Marx 100 anos. A permanência do instável, edited by Lauro Cavalcanti and Farès El-Dahdah (Rio de Janeiro : Fundação Roberto Marinho/Editora Rocco Ltda, 2009), this book accompanies the exhibition, "Roberto Burle Marx, la permanence de l'instable" at la Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, Paris, 22 March-24 July 2011"--Colophon. Text in English with translations from Portuguese or French.
Subject headings (LCSH): Burle Marx, Roberto, 1909-1994--Catalogs.; Burle Marx, Roberto, 1909-1994--Exhibitions.; Burle Marx, Roberto, 1909-1994.; Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, France)--Exhibitions.; Gardens--Brazil; Landscape architects--Brazil--Exhibitions.; Landscape architects--Brazil.; Landscape architecture--Brazil--Catalogs.; Landscape architecture--Brazil--Exhibitions.; Landscape architecture--Brazil.; Landscape design--Brazil--Exhibitions.; Public spaces--Brazil.; Urban beautification--Brazil.