Main entry:

Berrizbeitia, Anita.

Title & Author:

Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas : Parque del Este, 1956-1961 / Anita Berrizbeitia.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005.

Description:

xi, 120 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Notes:
Includes list of plants found in Parque del Este.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120) and index.
Ch. 1. Groundwork -- Ch. 2. The hybrid modernism of Roberto Burle Marx -- Ch. 3. Lightness -- Ch. 4. Roberto Burle Marx and the contemporary practice of landscape architecture -- App. Parque del Este plant list.
Also issued online.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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 Berrizbeitia goes beyond the common formal analysis of his designs to explore the multiple contexts and cultural conditions that give rise to his uncompromising vision for gardens and landscapes. She charts a middle ground for the interpretation of built landscapes that explores the various ways in which the complex web of political and socioeconomic circumstances and Burle Marx's personal aesthetic intersect in the making of landscapes, Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas is the only in-depth study of this major site, a two-hundred-acre urban park built between 1956 and 1961, and offers an approach for future studies of the Venezuelan and Latin American landscape."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0812238044 (alk. paper)
9780812238044 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Burle Marx, Roberto, 1909-1994.
Burle Marx, Roberto, 1909-
Marx, Roberto Burle 1909-1994
Marx, Roberto Burle.
Landscape architects Venezuela Caracas.
Landscape architecture Venezuela Caracas.
Architectes paysagistes Venezuela Caracas.
Architecture du paysage Venezuela Caracas.
Landscape architects.
Landscape architecture.
Garten
Parque del Este (Caracas, Venezuela)
Caracas Gärten/Parks Geschichte 1956-1961.
Venezuela Caracas.
Venezuela Caracas Parque del Este.
Caracas

Added entries:

Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234242
Call No.: NA44.B961.25 P37 2005
Status: Available