Roberto Burle Marx - Modernist Landscape Designer

One of a Kind

2019 Exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden based on Roberto Burle Marx’s landscape designs #NYBG go here

Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) was my idol when I studied landscape architecture at the University of Hawaii in the 1970s: he worked with tropical plants ( I started out knowing tropicals) and was trained in painting. I loved that Burle Marx painted every morning before attending to his design practice. He said he 'painted his gardens'.

Roberto Burle Marx

Burle Marx asserted that the creation of a garden was 'an attempt to regain a lost paradise'.

RBM at work in his studio - photo source go here