A person I admire

Roberto Burle Marx was a plastic artist, and Brazilian naturist, who became a well known architect landscapist. Burle was born in 1909, on the city of Sao Paulo.

Since he was a little boy, he was very interested in the gardens, like when he accompany his mother to cultivate several species of flowers. He studied in the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, but didn’t finish the class.

Burle Marx first’s landscaping inspirations came while he was studying painting in Germany, while he often visited the Botanical Garden in Brazil, and learn about Brazil’s native nature. After return to Brazil, he began to collect native plants around his home.

The international recognition he won, was because the project of the Ministry of Education building, where he design in a really abstract way, the roof.

Burle Marx’s style was avant-garde and modern, and always with the Brazilian folk art. His designs were also influenced by the cubism and abstractionism.

When he start to introduced plant into his projects, he had a serious problem, because the species of native flora that he wanted to use weren’t known in the shops, so he start his own greenhouse.

The reason of why I admire him, is because he was able to mixed up arts (painting) with a part of architecture, and create something beautiful, also helping the environment and the native flora of Brazil, by making more and more recognized the native plants in his works.