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 | One of the most influential landscape and garden designers of the twentieth century, Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1993) has inspired generations of gardens around the world. His sweeping forms and painterly approach to planting were revolutionary when they first came to public attention in the 1930s, and many contemporary designs today owe his vision a great debt. Born in Såo Paulo, Brazil, the son of German emigrants, Burle Marx studied painting in Rio de Janeiro, an aspect of his work that persist ...
Amazon / University of California Press / Book
 Price: 249.99 $ |  | The great Brazilian landscape architects bold use of striking plant materials made him the most influential designer since Gertrude Jekyll. This study, done with Burle Marxs cooperation, traces the roots of his artistic vision and illustrates the plants he grew for use in his own designs. ...
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Price: 231.06 $ |  | The 3rd edition of this book has been revised and updated by one of the pioneers in the field of landscape design. The book examines principles of design in famous gardens in Spain, Italy, France and England. Dame Sylvia Crowe, a pioneer in the field of landscape design, has written a book that encompasses both a history of design in gardens and a study of the need for these principles to be applied to the contemporary landscape. She takes the reader through the recurring manifestations of the p ...
Amazon / Sothebys Pubns / Book
Price: 60.00 $ |  | For most landscape architects, and designers in general, the name Roberto Burle Marx immediately brings to mind his painterly vision of the landscape as well as his inspired use of the flora of his native Brazil. However, his work has consistently been presented in the design literature as if it existed in a vacuum, disengaged from the historical circumstances that provide both shape and meaning to public landscapes. In Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este, 1956-1961 , Anita Berrizbeit ...
Amazon / University of Pennsylvania Press / Book
Price: 49.95 $ |  | Dame Sylvia Crowe (1901-1997), was a pioneer in the field of landscape design, writing a book that encompasses both a fascinating history of design in gardens and a stimulating study of the need for these principles to be applied to the contemporary landscape. This book is Garden Design . Crowe takes the reader through the recurring manifestations of the principles of design in such famous gardens as the Alhambra in Spain, the Villa Lante in Italy, Vaux-le-Vicomte in France and Stowe in England ...
Amazon / Antique Collectors Club Dist / Book
Price: 39.50 $ |  | An inspirational and insightful look at contemporary Brazilian garden design and the influence of famed designer Roberto Burle Marx. Brazilian Roberto Burle Marx was indisputably one of the greatest garden and landscape architects of the twentieth century. His projects, almost all of which were in his native country and highlighted its rich local flora, influenced gardens and landscapes—and other design disciplines—around the world. Given the richness of Brazils great tradition of modernism and ...
Amazon / Thames & Hudson / Book
Price: 34.13 $ |  | In exquisite gardens inspired by the lush native plants of his adopted home of Miami, landscape artist/architect Raymond Jungles uses nature as a means of self-expression. He is known for modernist groupings of geometric shapes, which highlight the natural aspects of plantings, water features, and native stone. His use of plants, drawn largely from those indigenous to subtropical regions, emphasizes their dramatic sculptural forms. Jungless original and inviting green spaces, like those of his m ...
Amazon / The Monacelli Press / Book
Price: 32.10 $ |  | In Search of Paradise is a survey of the great gardens of the world, presented through photographic images and the descriptions of the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. Here you will find the oases of the Middle East, the gardens of Chinese scholars, Japanese sages and Renaissance humanists, French baroque gardens, the English landscape garden of Capability Brown and his followers. Here too are the gardens of the great modern designers, among them Roberto Burle Marx, Fernando Carunch ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 31.47 $ |  | In an ongoing search to carve their unique visions from the natural world, the artists and architects of the twentieth century have transformed both our physical landscapes and the way we perceive outdoor space. This quest for harmony between the natural and the manmade has yielded some of the most spectacular gardens ever created. The Modern Garden is the first fully illustrated overview of the great gardens of the 20th century. It portrays hundreds of gardens, from the works of Geoffrey Jellic ...
Amazon / Princeton Architectural Press / Book
Price: 23.98 $ |  | Writing about gardens and gardening, plants and plantspeople - a selection of material written by one of the worlds leading garden journalists during the period 1998-2000. A veritable compost heap of ideas, experiences, opinions, people and places. Includes a longer essay about the authors visit to meet landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx in Brazil in 1994.Writing about gardens and gardening, plants and plantspeople - a selection of material written by one of the worlds leading garden journali ...
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