Roberto Burle Marx (São Paulo, 1909 – Rio de Janeiro, 1994) is known as a landscape architect, but also as a painter, plantsman, gardener, and jewellery designer, tapestry designer, in short, a multitalented artist. He considered the garden to be one of the fine arts, as <he adaptation of the biome to civilisation’s natural requirements.”
The philosophy of the prolific Brazilian author Burle Marx was the garden “as the adaptation of the biome to civilisation’s natural requirements”. If garden design is considered one of the fine arts, here we enter the realm of full sensory experience. His work with plants becomes highly pictorial. Everything is drawn, coloured and constructed. In this symbiosis between aesthetics and botany, Burle Marx is master of both species and spaces.
